{"id":19496,"date":"2022-02-25T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T08:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=19496"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T15:47:38","slug":"scientific-phrases-to-hide-a-non-significant-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/02\/scientific-phrases-to-hide-a-non-significant-result\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant phrases to hide a non significant result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3001562\">papers<\/a> I wish I would have had the idea\u00a0 ;-)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The question is how phrases expressing nonsignificant results have been reported in RCTs over the past 30 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>incredible &#8230; and it is even tortured science to rely on p&lt;0.05\u00a0 &#8211; for a discussion see references <a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/stop-using-p-0-05-4a059e622c75\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Misuse_of_p-values\">2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-017-0189-z\">3.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/journal.pbio_.3001562.t001.png\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/journal.pbio_.3001562.t001-620x1213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"1213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/journal.pbio_.3001562.t001-620x1213.png 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/journal.pbio_.3001562.t001-256x500.png 256w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/journal.pbio_.3001562.t001-768x1502.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/journal.pbio_.3001562.t001-785x1536.png 785w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/journal.pbio_.3001562.t001-1047x2048.png 1047w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/journal.pbio_.3001562.t001.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 27.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those papers I wish I would have had the idea\u00a0 ;-) The question is how phrases expressing nonsignificant results have been reported in RCTs over the past 30 years. incredible &#8230; and it is even tortured science to rely on p&lt;0.05\u00a0 &#8211; for a discussion see references 1, 2 and 3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/02\/scientific-phrases-to-hide-a-non-significant-result\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Significant phrases to hide a non significant result<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[3751],"class_list":["post-19496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-significance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19503,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496\/revisions\/19503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}