Affiliation:
1. Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2. Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstract
Previous studies provided mixed findings on pecularities inp-value distributions in psychology. This paper examined 258,050 test results across 30,710 articles from eight high impact journals to investigate the existence of a peculiar prevalence ofp-values just below .05 (i.e., a bump) in the psychological literature, and a potential increase thereof over time. We indeed found evidence for a bump just below .05 in the distribution of exactly reportedp-values in the journals Developmental Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, but the bump did not increase over the years and disappeared when using recalculatedp-values. We found clear and direct evidence for the QRP “incorrect rounding ofp-value” (John, Loewenstein & Prelec, 2012) in all psychology journals. Finally, we also investigated monotonic excess ofp-values, an effect of certain QRPs that has been neglected in previous research, and developed two measures to detect this by modeling the distributions of statistically significantp-values. Using simulations and applying the two measures to the retrieved test results, we argue that, although one of the measures suggests the use of QRPs in psychology, it is difficult to draw general conclusions concerning QRPs based on modeling ofp-value distributions.
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience
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