Data from Paper “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant”

<span class="s1">The data includes measures collected for the two experiments reported in “False-Positive Psychology” [1] where listening to a randomly assigned song made people feel younger (Study 1) or actually be younger (Study 2). These data are useful because they illustrate inf...

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Main Authors: Joseph P Simmons, Leif D Nelson, Uri Simonsohn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2014-02-01
Series:Journal of Open Psychology Data
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Online Access:http://openpsychologydata.metajnl.com/articles/5
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description <span class="s1">The data includes measures collected for the two experiments reported in “False-Positive Psychology” [1] where listening to a randomly assigned song made people feel younger (Study 1) or actually be younger (Study 2). These data are useful because they illustrate inflations of false positive rates due to flexibility in data collection, analysis, and reporting of results. Data are useful for educational purposes.</span>
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Data from Paper “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant”
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False-Positive psychology
methodology
motivated reasoning
publication bias
disclosure
p-hacking
title Data from Paper “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant”
title_full Data from Paper “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant”
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title_full_unstemmed Data from Paper “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant”
title_short Data from Paper “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant”
title_sort data from paper false positive psychology undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant
topic False-Positive psychology
methodology
motivated reasoning
publication bias
disclosure
p-hacking
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