Any particularly favourite result sections?

John Christie writes:

I was wondering if you had any particularly favourite results sections that you’ve read or written. Specifically I was hoping to find some that were estimation based and perhaps even relied on frequentist estimates (thinking of Amrhein et al. estimation recommendation from Nature 2019). Examples might be instrumental for students.

My reply: I’m not quite sure what your question is? Maybe because in the papers I see, there’s not such a clear distinction between methods/data/results/conclusions. To the extent that my papers have results sections, these are all estimation based. For example here, here, or here. I guess that just about any paper of mine with empirical results will place them in an estimation framework!

Christie responded:

In the bulk of psychology, and the various fields that also use APA formatting out of convenience, results sections are separate from discussion and conclusion. It’s an unnecessarily inflexible system; but given you don’t have any experience with this separation, I can see how asking about your favourite results section using estimation might be strange.

It occurs to me that this separation itself might be making it hard to write up results primarily using estimation. Conclusions flow with the presentation when you use estimation.

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