There are many variations on how to carry out this demonstration and how to wrap it up. If you continue, students will become too certain that the deck is unfair. With five draws, there is still doubt. At this point, students can choose to believe the deck is unfair or they can choose to believe they were just unlucky. Students will, of course, want to see the deck, which you should by no means show them.
As I tell my students—the whole practice of statistics is dealing with uncertainty; there are no correct answers against which you can check the decisions you make. I like to put one black card in the deck. This gives them a shock and makes them reconsider their conclusion based on this new evidence. If you want to really confound the students, steam open one of the new decks, and, after creating the modified deck, carefully reseal it.
This way, you can make a big to-do of showing the class it is a brand new deck thus increasing the threshold of suspicion. Figure 1: Three plots from openintro. The second example comes from OpenIntro. Instead of approaching the why 0. After an introductory video, the visitor is presented with a series of 15 scatterplots three of which are shown in Figure 1.
For each one, they must decide whether the graph provides enough evidence of a real, upward trend or not enough evidence for a real, upward trend; that is, whether they reject H0 or do not reject H0. After completing this task, a follow-up video explains the results and then the visitor is presented with their individual results based on the choices they made for the set of scatterplots.
Each graph has an associated p -value for the test on the slope of the regression line. The next screen reveals all 15 graphs with their associated p-values, and for each one whether the visitor rejected H0 or did not reject H0 based on their intuition and their visual inspection. I did this activity, and, as seen in Figure 2 the cutoff for me was 0.
This means I found evidence for a significant linear relationship for the graphs that had an associated p -value less than 0. This activity is great to do in class the videos can be skipped, with the teacher filling in the necessary explanation. I suspect this proposal will be heavily debated as is everything in science.
At least this latest call for radical change does highlight an important fact plaguing science: Statistical significance is widely misunderstood. Let me walk you through it. I think it will help you understand this debate better, and help you see that there are a lot more ways to judge the merits of a scientific finding than p-values.
Even the simplest definitions of p-values tend to get complicated, so bear with me as I break it down. First thing to know: This is not a test of the question the experimenter most desperately wants to answer. To test that, they assign 50 participants to eat one bar of chocolate a day. Another 50 are commanded to abstain from the delicious stuff. Both groups are weighed before the experiment and then after, and their average weight change is compared.
It states there is no difference in the weight loss of the chocolate eaters versus the chocolate abstainers. Rejecting the null is a major hurdle scientists need to clear to prove their hypothesis.
And what is science if not a process of narrowing down explanations? In court, you start off with the assumption that the defendant is innocent.
Then you start looking at the evidence: the bloody knife with his fingerprints on it, his history of violence, eyewitness accounts. As the evidence mounts, that presumption of innocence starts to look naive.
At a certain point, jurors get the feeling, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant is not innocent. Null hypothesis testing follows a similar logic: If there are huge and consistent weight differences between the chocolate eaters and chocolate abstainers, the null hypothesis — that there are no weight differences — starts to look silly and you can reject it.
Rejecting the null hypothesis is indirect evidence of an experimental hypothesis. Simply Psychology. Toggle navigation. Statistics p -value What a p -value tells you about statistical significance What a p -value tells you about statistical significance By Dr.
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Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative. Skip to main content. Search all SpringerOpen articles Search. Download PDF. Abstract Here, we summarise the unresolved debate about p value and its dichotomisation. Key points The p value reflects the degree of data compatibility with the null hypothesis. Some recommend abandoning p value, others lowering the significance threshold to 0.
Threshold adjustments are needed for artificial intelligence-fuelled radiomics and big data. Background A hot debate is long going on in major journals about p value and statistical significance. Opposite opinions on the p value In , the American Statistical Association ASA released a statement warning against the misuse of statistical significance and p values [ 5 ].
The main ASA points are highlighted in the form of do nots , as follows: Do not base your conclusions solely on whether an association or effect was found to be statistically significant i. The threshold for significance and its origin The above-mentioned five points from ASA are surely relevant. The threshold: to lower or not to lower? Examples of studies leading to 0. Beyond the p value: secondary evidence and data sharing Regardless of the misuse of p value and lack of reproducibility, too much importance is given to the p value threshold rather than to biases as well as selective reporting and non-transparency in published studies.
The peculiar case of radiomics Concerns on the so-called multiple testing burden hold in any research dealing with numerous variables and significance thresholds must be adapted according to established methods.
Alternatives to the p value Several alternatives to the p value have been proposed. To this regard, a simulation study [ 38 ] has shown some cornerstones, summarised as follows: 1. Educational issues and conclusions The use of p value and its dichotomisation remains a matter for debate.
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