Misuse of commonly used statistical methods have for long plagued scholarly research, resulting in big claims being drawn from weak evidence. Now, the Americ...

Attempts to explain the findings of observational studies might lead readers to confuse correlation with causation. The full article was published in Signifi...

When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed reaction from the resea...

I was invited to Science Friday to talk about the recent debate around lowering p-value thresholds. Listen to the podcast here. I originally reported on this...

Researchers are at odds over when to dub a discovery 'significant'. In July, 72 researchers took aim at the P value, calling for a lower threshold for the po...

Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly literature is litte...