Commentary: How Bayes factors change scientific practice

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30/09/2016
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10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01504
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http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01504/full
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Dienes's (2016) article is one of the contributions to the special issue “Bayes factors for testing hypotheses in psychological research…” being published by the Journal of Mathematical Psychology. One concern I have with Dienes's article is its “one-size-fits-all” philosophy. A second concern is the reification of Bayes factors as the solution to the credibility crisis. I find it naive that a single approach is still proposed as the one and only tool for testing data. I also find it naive to assume that Bayes factors, with no clear replicability mechanism attached to them, are the ones to resolve the credibility crisis in psychology.
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Bayes factors, significance testing, acceptance testing, meta-analysis, replication, Fisher, Neyman-Pearson, Jeffreys
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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 2016, 7
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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/10024
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