section_path: Contemporary issues/Metascience/Misuse of statistics
section_name: Misuse of statistics
paragraph_text: Misuse of statistics
  
  Some critics view statistical hypothesis testing as misplaced. Psychologist and statistician Jacob Cohen wrote in 1994 that psychologists routinely confuse statistical significance with practical importance, enthusiastically reporting great certainty in unimportant facts. Some psychologists have responded with an increased use of effect size statistics, rather than sole reliance on p -values.