> Most first-tier journals in the social sciences have an acceptance rate of about 5%. Assuming the null hypothesis, that is precisely our expectation of findi

> Most first-tier journals in the social sciences have an acceptance rate of about 5%. Assuming the null hypothesis, that is precisely our expectation of finding something significant under the p < .05 rule. (That is, assuming that all papers try to falsely reject a true null hypothesis, then we expect 5% of the papers to be successful at that and get published.)