Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has several shortcomings that are likely
contributing factors behind the widely debated replication crisis of (cognitive) neuroscience …

Significance testing of null hypotheses is the standard epistemological method for
advancing scientific knowledge in psychology, even though it has drawbacks and it leads to …

We need to make substantial changes to how we conduct research. First, in response to
heightened concern that our published research literature is incomplete and untrustworthy …

Although thoroughly criticized, null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) remains the
statistical method of choice used to provide evidence for an effect, in biological, biomedical …

Despite frequent calls for the overhaul of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), this
controversial procedure remains ubiquitous in behavioral, social and biomedical teaching …

Recent criticisms of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) have appeared in education
and psychology research journals (eg,;;; Rosnow & Rosenthal, 1989;;;; see also Research in …

It is now widely accepted that the techniques of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST)
are routinely misused and misinterpreted by researchers seeking insight from data. There is …

This reprinted article originally appeared in Psychological Methods, 2000 (Sep), Vol 5 (3),
315-332.(The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2001-17888-001.) …

Despite publication of many well‐argued critiques of null hypothesis testing (NHT).
behavioral science researchers continue to rely heavily on this set of practices. Although we …

Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is undoubtedly the most common inferential
technique used to justify claims in the social sciences. However, even staunch defenders of …