{"id":6678,"date":"2019-04-09T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2019-06-10T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:48:15","slug":"can-flipping-coins-replace-animal-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/can-flipping-coins-replace-animal-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Can flipping coins replace animal experiments? <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3000188\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PLOS Biology<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0April 9, 2019 | 14:00 EDT\u00a0<\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2019-04\/p-cfc040419.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from <em>PLOS<\/em>)<br \/>\nA coin toss has exposed a problem that may affect many biomedicine studies. In many of these studies, small sample sizes and frequent loose thresholds for accepting statistical significance can lead to high rates of false-positive results and overestimation of true effects. Contrary to expectation, replication may not add more evidence compared to what could be gained from tossing a coin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author:<\/strong> Robert Nadon, McGill University &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:robert.nadon@mcgill.ca\" target=\"_blank\">robert.nadon@mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS Biology Published\u00a0April 9, 2019 | 14:00 EDT\u00a0(News release from PLOS) A coin toss has exposed a problem that may affect many biomedicine studies. In many of these studies, small sample sizes and frequent loose thresholds for accepting statistical significance can lead to high rates of false-positive results and overestimation of true effects. Contrary to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1JI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6679,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}