Significant samples-not significance tests! The often overlooked solution to the replication problem

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-12

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84894460520     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035849     Document Type: Article

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