p-values vs Bayes factors: Is there a compromise?
David Wolfson · Nov 23, 2018
Date: 2018-11-23 Time: 15:30-16:30 Location: BURN 1104 Abstract: This is not a research talk. Rather, the goal is to address the topic of the talk title through a 2017 multi-authored paper published in Nature Human Behaviour. The Nature article proposes that the standard cut-off significance level of .05 should be replaced by a cut-off level of .005 when new discoveries are being claimed. The authors attribute the high proportion of irreducible results in the literature that accompany claimed new discoveries, in part, to the low-bar cut-off of .