Null hypothesis significance tests, a misleading approach to scientific knowledge: Some implications for eating disorders research

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Psychobiology and Methodology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ² CIBER Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
• ³ Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), London, UK.
• ⁴ Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁵ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ⁶ Department of Neuroscience, University of Padua and Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
• ⁷ Eating Disorders Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁸ Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁹ Eating Disorders Unit, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹⁰ Eating Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.