E39- Statistical grammar with Sarah Hamersma
The Hidden Curriculum
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Is There Something Bigger Than Zero in Your Sample?
Sometimes when I referee papers and they're trying to run a rag where you're not supposed to find an effect here and they run it, the fact is huge on its own. Just because your estimate is statistically different than zero in your sample does not mean that the true effect is there or that you're well powered. So I see this all the time in seven hours, drives me nuts. People are like, I didn't expect to have power to find stars here, but I found it. And Gelman in Carlin have this fantastic paper that just as if you've got low power and you happen to find a statistically significant something that's not, you know, the same as zero
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