Cohen’s Convention, the Seriousness of Errors, and the Body of Knowledge in Behavioral Science

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<p>An often-cited convention for discovery-oriented behavioral science research states that the general relative seriousness of the antecedently accepted false positive error rate of α = .05 be mirrored by a false negative error rate of β = .20. In 1965, Jacob Cohen proposed this convention to decrease a β-error typically in vast excess of .20. Thereby, we argue, Cohen (unintentionally) contributed to the wide acc...

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10.31234/osf.io/mjb2x