That's how I read it. And that's how I've read it in several stats books. Bugs the hell out of me.
m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- From: Wuensch, Karl L [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 5:29 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Frequency of Type I errors in published research. Referring to the file drawer problem and data falsification, the president of the Association for Psychological Science recently wrote: "These and related factors should tend to inflate 'false positives' (aka Type I errors), which leads inexorably to the pessimistic conclusion that some unknown (but considerably higher than .05) proportion of our field's published effects are not true effects." Am I misreading this, or does he imply (incorrectly) that use of the .05 criterion of statistical significance would be expected to result in 5% of published research findings being Type I errors? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13029.76c7c563b32ad9d8d09c72a2d17c90e1&n=T&l=tips&o=17069 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-17069-13029.76c7c563b32ad9d8d09c72a2d17c9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-17069-13029.76c7c563b32ad9d8d09c72a2d17c9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> ________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by Baker University ("BU") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify Baker University by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=17088 or send a blank email to leave-17088-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
