Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorC. Funk, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorH. Robinson, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorHalbur, Duane
dc.contributor.authorO'Ryan, Leslie
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:32:26Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:32:26Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.modified2009-12-21T03:11:03Z
dc.identifier.issn10855300
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/27803
dc.description.abstractThe .05 alpha level has long served as a standard for significance testing in educational research, a tradition that began with Ronald Fisher and Karl Pearson. Unlike previous authors who have criticized this tradition, we attempted to explain empirically why .05 is the preferred alpha level. In five experiments, undergraduate and graduate students were asked to consider after how many consecutive occurrences of either selecting red cards or obtaining "heads" coin flips would they consider the results not likely due to chance. Results showed that the modal stopping points, or most persons' thresholds for the dismissal of results as due to chance, had probabilities close to .05. Thus, the .05 alpha level appears to have a psychological basis.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMid-South Educational Research Association
dc.publisher.placeJohnson City, TN, United States
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.msera.org/index.html
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom79
dc.relation.ispartofpageto86
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalResearch in the Schools
dc.relation.ispartofvolume10
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation Systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1301
dc.titleThe .05 Level of Significance in Educational Research: Traditional, Arbitrary, Sacred, Magical, or Simply Psychological
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2003
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFunk, Daniel C.


Files in this item

FilesSizeFormatView

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

  • Journal articles
    Contains articles published by Griffith authors in scholarly journals.

Show simple item record