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Document significant figures format in guidelines #34

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mjskay opened this issue Jun 23, 2017 · 2 comments
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Document significant figures format in guidelines #34

mjskay opened this issue Jun 23, 2017 · 2 comments
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mjskay commented Jun 23, 2017

I think this should be separate from the effect size FAQ, so maybe needs to be its own (short) FAQ / guideline describing our rationale and the function we use in all the other guidelines.

Do this after we decide on #33

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dragice commented Jul 2, 2017

Agreed. My guess is that the right format will depend on the case. Figures have semantics associated to them. For p for example there's this convention that we don't include the zero from the integer part. Also for intervals, [13.456, 13.461] seems reasonable but [13.456, 97.193] probably less so. There's also this trade-off between avoiding spurious precision vs. allowing people who reanalyze our data to verify their results. It's complicated. We should probably avoid APA-style rules such as "always report two sig digits", and instead illustrate different case scenarios.

A FAQ/guideline about graphic formats could be nice too.

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For reference: previous discussion on sig. figure and R functions: https://github.com/transparentstats/guidelines/pull/32/files/2681012b345b797b766fa2e256a80008bf129dd3

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