[From the article “Five ways to fix statistics” posted at nature.com]

“As debate rumbles on about how and how much to poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recommend one change to improve science.”

Researchers Jeff Leek, Blakely McShane, Andrew Gelman, David Colquhoun, Michéle Nuijten, and Steven Goodman proffered the following advice:

– “Adjust for human cognition”

– “Abandon statistical significance”

– “State false-positive risk, too”

– “Share analysis plans and results”

– “Change norms from within”

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