Discussion on the benefits of higher confidence intervals for reporting uncertainty in estimates.
I think it is important people report confidence intervals to provide an indication of the uncertainty in the point estimates they report. However, I am not too enthusiastic about the current practice to report 95% confidence intervals. I think there are good reasons to consider alternatives, such as reporting 99.9% confidence intervals instead.
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Daniël Lakens (2014) studied this question.
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