Publication Decisions and their Possible Effects on Inferences Drawn from Tests of Significance—or Vice Versa
发表决策对显著性检验推断的可能影响及其反向关系
There is some evidence that in fields where statistical tests of significance are commonly used, research which yields nonsignificant results is not published. Such research being unknown to other investigators may be repeated independently until eventually by chance a significant result occurs—an “error of the first kind”—and is published. Significant results published in these fields are seldom verified by independent replication. The possibility thus arises that the…