Redefine statistical significance

Authors: Daniel J. Benjamin, James M. Berger, Magnus Johannesson, Brian A. Nosek, Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers, Richard A. Berk, Kenneth A. Bollen, Björn Brembs, Lawrence Brown, Colin F. Camerer, David Cesarini, Chris Chambers, Merlise Aycock Clyde, Tom Cook, Paul De Boeck, Zoltán Dienes, Anna Dreber, Kenny Easwaran, Charles Efferson, Ernst Fehr, Fiona Fidler, Andy P. Field, Malcolm E. Forster, Ed George, Richard Gonzalez, Steve Goodman, Ed Green, Don Green, Anthony G. Greenwald, Jarrod D. Hadfield, Larry V. Hedges, Leonhard Held, Teck‐Hua Ho, Herbert Hoijtink, James H. Jones, Daniel J. Hruschka, Kosuke Imai, Guido W. Imbens, John P. A. Ioannidis, Minjeong Jeon, Michael Kirchler, David Laibson, John A. List, Roderick J. A. Little, Arthur Lupia, Édouard Machery, Scott E. Maxwell, Michael McCarthy, Don A. Moore, Stephen L. Morgan, Marcus R. Munafò, Shinichi Nakagawa, Brendan Nyhan, Timothy Parker, Luis R. Pericchi, Marco Perugini, Jeffrey N. Rouder, Judith Rousseau, Victoria Savalei, Felix D. Schönbrodt, Thomas Sellke, Betsy Sinclair, Dustin Tingley, Trisha Van Zandt, Simine Vazire, Duncan J. Watts, Christopher Winship, Robert L. Wolpert, Yu Xie, CRISTOBAL YOUNG, Jonathan Zinman, Valen E. Johnson - Nature Human Behaviour 2017 cited by 2,788

"We propose to change the default P-value threshold forstatistical significance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005."