If you've got an effect, test its significance; if you've got a weak effect, do a meta-analysis

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1998; 21: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Cambridge Univ Press. 205.

Abstract: Statistical significance testing has its problems, but so do the alternatives that are proposed; and the alternatives may be both more cumbersome and less informative. Significance tests remain legitimate aspects of the rhetoric of scientific persuasion.

Note: Editorial Kihlstrom JF, Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Psychol, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley,CA 94720 USA

Keyword(s): CLINICAL-SIGNIFICANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY

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