Distributions of p-values smaller than .05 in psychology: what is going on?

PeerJ · 2016 · PMC4830257 · PMID 27077017

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barely significantno p-value reported

A tentative explanation of the bump of p -values just below .05 for DP, JAP, and JPSP may be that QRPs that aim to obtain barely significant results are more frequent in the fields of these journals.

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