Why we should stop using statistical techniques that have not been adequately vetted by experts in psychology
Daniel Lakens (noreply@blogger.com)
In a recent
post on Bluesky, where Richard Morey reflects on a paper he published with
Clintin Davis-Stober that points out concerns with the p-curve method (Morey
& Davis-Stober, 2025) , he writes: Also,
I think people should stop using forensic meta-analytic techniques that have
not been adequately vetted by experts in statistics. The p-curve papers have
very little statistical detail, and were published in psych journals. They did
not get the scrutiny appropriate to their popularity. Although