The List of Meaningless Research

I’m not going to make any friends by posting this, but perhaps shaming researchers will lead to some reform in the social sciences. Below is an embedded spreadsheet listing studies I have read (so, definitely not exhaustive) that either exclude effect sizes from the paper entirely, include them but don’t use them correctly, or ignore them. The result is either a paper that doesn’t really tell us much or a finding for the null that isn’t framed that way because the authors focus exclusively on p-values and ignore effect sizes.

If you find similar articles, feel free to send them to me so I can add them to The List of Meaningless Research.