Errors of interpretation of p values among Spanish professional psychologists: an exploratory study
This paper analyzes the misinterpretatons of the p-value made by Spanish practitioner psychologists given that lack of knowledge and understanding of p value might affect the professionals’ decisions and jeopardize the quality of psychological interventions. We carried out a survey on 77 practitione...
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| author | Laura Badenes-Ribera Dolores Frias-Navarro Amparo Bonilla-Campos |
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| description | This paper analyzes the misinterpretatons of the p-value made by Spanish practitioner psychologists given that lack of knowledge and understanding of p value might affect the professionals’ decisions and jeopardize the quality of psychological interventions. We carried out a survey on 77 practitioner psychologists from Spain (68.8% women, mean age of 41.44 years, SD = 9.42). Our findings are consistent with previous research and suggest that many participants did not know how to correctly interpret p values. More than a third of them believed that p-value indicate the clinical or practical significance of the findings. These results highlight the importance of the training in statistical concepts, research design methodology, and statistical inference tests in order to improve professional practice among practitioner psychologists. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-999dfd1a3d0c420788ea0bb30aebd7e02023-01-02T06:02:51ZengAsociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y DiscapacidadINFAD0214-98772603-59872017-10-012155156010.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v2.870790Errors of interpretation of p values among Spanish professional psychologists: an exploratory studyLaura Badenes-Ribera0Dolores Frias-Navarro1Amparo Bonilla-Campos2Universitat de València (España)Universitat de ValènciaUniversitat de ValènciaThis paper analyzes the misinterpretatons of the p-value made by Spanish practitioner psychologists given that lack of knowledge and understanding of p value might affect the professionals’ decisions and jeopardize the quality of psychological interventions. We carried out a survey on 77 practitioner psychologists from Spain (68.8% women, mean age of 41.44 years, SD = 9.42). Our findings are consistent with previous research and suggest that many participants did not know how to correctly interpret p values. More than a third of them believed that p-value indicate the clinical or practical significance of the findings. These results highlight the importance of the training in statistical concepts, research design methodology, and statistical inference tests in order to improve professional practice among practitioner psychologists.http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/870valores de pconcepciones erróneastamaño del efectofalacias |
| spellingShingle | Laura Badenes-Ribera Dolores Frias-Navarro Amparo Bonilla-Campos Errors of interpretation of p values among Spanish professional psychologists: an exploratory study INFAD valores de p concepciones erróneas tamaño del efecto falacias |
| title | Errors of interpretation of p values among Spanish professional psychologists: an exploratory study |
| title_full | Errors of interpretation of p values among Spanish professional psychologists: an exploratory study |
| title_fullStr | Errors of interpretation of p values among Spanish professional psychologists: an exploratory study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Errors of interpretation of p values among Spanish professional psychologists: an exploratory study |
| title_short | Errors of interpretation of p values among Spanish professional psychologists: an exploratory study |
| title_sort | errors of interpretation of p values among spanish professional psychologists an exploratory study |
| topic | valores de p concepciones erróneas tamaño del efecto falacias |
| url | http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/870 |
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