Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2018 Jun 8:9:868.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00868. eCollection 2018.

P-Value, Confidence Intervals, and Statistical Inference: A New Dataset of Misinterpretation

Ziyang Lyu  1 , Kaiping Peng  1 , Chuan-Peng Hu  2   3
Affiliations

P-Value, Confidence Intervals, and Statistical Inference: A New Dataset of Misinterpretation

Ziyang Lyu et al. Front Psychol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: P-Value; confidence intervals (CIs); misinterpretation; replication crisis; statistical inference.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Descriptive results from all valid data. (A) Percentage of respondents who misinterpreted the P-value, the “A” to “F” on X-axis represent six statements about P-value, “At least 1” means that respondents misinterpreted at least one statement; (B) Percentage of respondents who misinterpreted the CIs, the “A” to “F” on X-axis represent six statements about P-value, “At least 1” means that respondents misinterpreted at least one statement; (C) Response for the question on “broadly consistent” (in percentage); (D) Response for the question on “more effective”(in percentage); (E) Response for the question on “conflict” (in percentage).
See this image and copyright information in PMC

Similar articles

See all similar articles

References

    1. Badenes-Ribera L., Frias-Navarro D., Iotti B., Bonilla-Campos A., Longobardi C. (2016). Misconceptions of the p-value among Chilean and Italian Academic Psychologists. Front. Psychol. 7:1247. 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01247 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Benjamin D. J., Berger J. O., Johannesson M., Nosek B. A., Wagenmakers E.-J., Berk R., et al. (2017). Redefine statistical significance. Nat. Hum. Behav. 2, 6–10. 10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z - DOI - PubMed
    1. Coulson M., Healey M., Fidler F., Cumming G. (2010). Confidence intervals permit, but don't guarantee, better inference than statistical significance testing. Front. Psychol. 1:26 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00026 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. Cumming G. (2014). The new statistics: why and how. Psychol. Sci. 25, 7–29. 10.1177/0956797613504966 - DOI - PubMed
    1. Cumming G., Fidler F., Leonard M., Kalinowski P., Christiansen A., Kleinig A., et al. . (2007). Statistical reform in psychology. Psychol. Sci. 18, 230–232. 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01881.x - DOI - PubMed

LinkOut - more resources