Sanah Hasan, Mahmoud Gamal, Catarina Samorinha, Nageeb AbdulGalil Hassan
Antibiotic use numeracy: Developing the infectious numeracy test (INT)
Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
recent years concern grown inappropriate application interpretation p values especially use p005 denote statistical significance practice phacking produce results threshold selectively reporting publications behavior said major contributor large number false nonreproducible discoveries found academic journals response proposed threshold statistical significance changed 005 0005 aim current study use evolutionary agentbased model comprised researchers test hypotheses strive increase publication rates order explore impact 0005 p value threshold phacking published false positive rates three scenarios examined one researchers tested single hypothesis one tested multiple hypotheses using p005 threshold one tested multiple hypotheses using p0005 threshold effects sizes varied across models output assessed terms researcher effort number hypotheses tested number publications published false positive rate results supported view stringent p value threshold serve reduce rate published false positive results researchers still engaged phacking new threshold effort expended increased substantially overall productivity reduced resulting decline published false positive rate compared proposed interventions improve academic publishing system changing p value threshold advantage relatively easy implement could monitored enforced minimal effort journal editors peer reviewers