Statistician suggests raising statistical standards to reduce amount of non-reproducible studies

(Phys.org) —Valen Johnson, a statistician with Texas A&M University is suggesting in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that the statistical standard used to judge the soundness of research efforts be made more stringent. Doing so, he writes, would reduce the large numbers of non-reproducible findings by researchers and as a result prevent the undermining of confidence in such efforts.

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