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On Asterisk Inflation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2010

Joshua S. Goldstein
Joshua S. Goldstein
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American University
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Abstract

In recent years, many political science articles have changed the traditional and correct method for flagging statistically significant coefficients in tables. They now add extra asterisks at each significance level. This article describes the shift and why it should be reversed.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 59 - 61
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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