
S1E02: (Statistical) Power Struggles
Quantitude
The Power of Cohen's Studies
Nd, and he has several very important papers over the years in highlighting that nomedian power of published studies is something like, you know, point three, point three, five is, that's a horrible thing to think about, is when you talk to a graduate student and you say, ok, even if your theory is right, right, that's, it's a conditional probability is, even assuming that your treatment is beneficial, you only have a one and three chance o finding a significant effect. So that is important./nWe have multiple indicator latent factors. We have om time nested within kids and kids nested within schools. We have multi variat growth models, and we have all these amazing things that we couldn't have even dreamed about in the seventies and eighties./nAnd you write in n i h r oneappl ation, and you have a mandatory paragraph that you say, what is the power of your study? And all i can think of, and i work with colleagues where i help write these paragraphs, and all i can think of is, the power of what right? As cohen was, he could unambiguously say, it's the power of distinguishing two groups when compared to o.