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But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared

Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment
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But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, decided to replicate the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59 — not even close to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The effect had disappeared, and with it, Motyl's dreams of youthful fame1.

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But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, decided to replicate the study. With extra data, the <i>P</i> value came out as 0.59 &#x2014; not even close to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The effect had disappeared, and with it, Motyl's dreams of youthful fame<sup><a class="ref-link" title="Nosek, B. A., Spies, J. R. &amp; Motyl, M. Perspect. Psychol. Sci. 7, 615&#x2013;631 (2012)." id="ref-link-1" href="#b1">1</a></sup>.

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