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Patrick R. Heck
Researcher at Geisinger Health System
Publications - 19
Citations - 285
Patrick R. Heck is an academic researcher from Geisinger Health System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social perception & Volunteer's dilemma. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 18 publications receiving 222 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick R. Heck include Twitter & Brown University.
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Objecting to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies or treatments
Michelle N. Meyer,Patrick R. Heck,Geoffrey S. Holtzman,Stephen Anderson,William Cai,Duncan J. Watts,Christopher F. Chabris +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that rigorously evaluating policies or treatment via pragmatic randomized trials may provoke greater objection than simply implementing those same policies or treatments untested.
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Putting the P Value in its Place
TL;DR: The American Statistician as mentioned in this paper offers a modest proposal for a continued and informed use of the conventional p-value without the pitfalls of statistical rituals, and other statistical indices should complement reporting, and extra-statistical judgments ought to be made with care and clarity.
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Self-enhancement diminished.
TL;DR: This work proposes 2 new measures to separate error from bias in the domain of personality judgment and performance, and estimates a defensible bias and an enhancement error from individuals' actual and perceived similarity with others.
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No Evidence that Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth: Two Failures to Replicate Williams and Bargh (2008)
Christopher F. Chabris,Patrick R. Heck,Jaclyn Mandart,Daniel J. Benjamin,Daniel J. Benjamin,Daniel J. Simons +5 more
TL;DR: For instance, Williams and Bargh as mentioned in this paper reported that holding a hot cup of coffee caused participants to judge a person's personality as warmer, and holding a therapeutic heat pad caused participan...
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The Heuristic Value of p in Inductive Statistical Inference.
TL;DR: It is concluded that despite its general usefulness, the p-value cannot bear the full burden of inductive inference; it is but one of several heuristic cues available to the data analyst.