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Type S and M errors as a “rhetorical tool”

Sourcehttp://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/09/type-s-and-m-errors-as-rhetorical-tool.html
AuthorDaniel Lakens
Published2025-09-28, 05:19 AM
SummaryUpdate 30/09/2025: I have added a reply by Andrew Gelman below my original blog post. We recently posted a preprint criticizing the idea of Type S and M errors (https://osf.io/2phzb_v1). From our abstract: “While these concepts have been proposed to be useful both when designing a study (prospective) and when evaluating results (retroactive), we argue that these statistics do not facilitate the proper design of studies, nor the meaningful interpretation of results.” In a recent blog post that is
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