Valentin Amrhein

Valentin Amrhein
Born (1971-04-01) 1 April 1971 (age 53)
Lübeck, Germany
CitizenshipGerman-Swiss
Occupation(s)Zoologist
Science journalist
OrganizationsUniversity of Basel
Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach
Known forOrnithologist
Critic of significance thresholds

Valentin Amrhein (born 1 April 1971 in Lübeck) is a German-Swiss professor of zoology at the University of Basel and science journalist.[1][2][3] Together with Sander Greenland and others, he is a critic of significance thresholds in science[4][5] and he draws attention to misunderstandings of p-values.[6] He is author of a comment in the journal Nature on statistical significance[4] that had the highest online attention score of all research outputs ever screened by Altmetric.[7]

  1. ^ "Website of University of Basel: Prof. Dr. Valentin Amrhein". Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  2. ^ Alexandra von Ascheraden (2015), "Der mit den Nachtigallen tanzt", TagesWoche (in German), retrieved 2021-03-15
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Amrhein, Valentin; Greenland, Sander; McShane, Blake (2019). "Scientists rise up against statistical significance". Nature. 567 (7748): 305–307. Bibcode:2019Natur.567..305A. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00857-9. PMID 30894741.
  5. ^ Amrhein, Valentin; Greenland, Sander (2018). "Remove, rather than redefine statistical significance". Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (1): 4. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0224-0. PMID 30980046. S2CID 256708339.
  6. ^ Amrhein, Valentin; Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi; Roth, Tobias (2017). "The earth is flat (p > 0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research". PeerJ. 5: e3544. doi:10.7717/peerj.3544. PMC 5502092. PMID 28698825.
  7. ^ "Research of the Month: It's time to retire statistical significance". Archived from the original on 2022-05-18. Retrieved 2023-03-22.