Understanding and reflecting on professional ethics related to being a statistician is an important aspect of statistical collaboration. This video presents a meeting where a scientist describes their plan to use statistical significance to decide what to report in a publication, putting the statistician in an ethical dilemma. The video also motivates discussion about issues related to pressure put on researchers to use “validated” instruments and obtain “significant” results.
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To cite the videos, scripts, and discussion questions, please use the following citation:
Sharp, J.L., Griffith, E., and Higgs, M. D. (2021). "Setting the stage: statistical collaboration videos for training the next generation of applied statisticians," Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 29(2): 165-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2021.1934202
To cite this video, please use the text:
Sharp, J.L., Griffith, E., and Higgs, M. (2020). Navigating requests related to p-hacking and survey validation [Video file]. https://youtu.be/zMb2LmzYqes.