Valentin Amrhein

Valentin Amrhein (born April 1, 1971 in Lübeck) is a German / Swiss professor of zoology at the University of Basel and science journalist.[1][2][3][4] Together with Sander Greenland and others, he is a critic of significance thresholds in science[5][6] and he draws attention to misunderstandings of p-values.[7] He is author of a comment in the journal Nature on statistical significance[5] that had the highest online attention score of all research outputs ever screened by Altmetric.[8]

Valentin Amrhein

Born	(1971-04-01) April 1, 1971 Lübeck, Germany
Citizenship	German / Swiss
Occupation	Zoologist Science journalist
Organization	University of Basel Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach
Known for	Ornithologist Critic of significance thresholds

Life

Amrhein spent his school years in Bonn[9] and studied biology at the University of Basel between 1992 and 1999.[4] Since 1999 he has been head of the research station Petite Camargue Alsacienne. He completed his PhD on the nightingale in 2004,[9] followed by a research stay at the University of Oslo. Since 2006, Amrhein has taught ornithology, conservation biology and statistics at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basel. In addition, he works as a science journalist, and from 2012 to 2016 he was head of communications at the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. Since 2017 he has been editor of the journal Ornithologischer Beobachter[10] at the Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach.[3]

Amrhein is married and father of three daughters.[2] During his studies he played violin in various orchestras and chamber music formations.[4]

Key publications

Amrhein, V.; Greenland, S. & McShane, B. (2019). "Retire statistical significance" (print title), "Scientists rise up against statistical significance" (online title). Nature.
Amrhein, V.; Trafimow, D. & Greenland, S. (2019). "Inferential statistics as descriptive statistics: there is no replication crisis if we don't expect replication". The American Statistician.
Amrhein, V. & Greenland, S. (2018). "Remove, rather than redefine, statistical significance". Nature Human Behaviour.
Amrhein, V.; Korner-Nievergelt, F. & Roth, T. (2017). "The earth is flat (p > 0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research". PeerJ.
Roth, T.; Plattner, M. & Amrhein, V. (2014). "Plants, birds and butterflies: short-term responses of species communities to climate warming vary by taxon and with altitude". PLOS ONE.
Amrhein, V.; Korner, P. & Naguib, M. (2002). "Nocturnal and diurnal singing activity in the nightingale: correlations with mating status and breeding cycle". Animal Behaviour.

External links

Valentin Amrhein on the website of University of Basel
Valentin Amrhein on Researchgate
"Inferential statistics is not inferential". Article by Amrhein about the replication crisis.

References

"Website of University of Basel: Prof. Dr. Valentin Amrhein". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
Alexandra von Ascheraden (2015), "Der mit den Nachtigallen tanzt", TagesWoche (in German), retrieved 2019-03-25
"Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne: Prof. Dr. Valentin Amrhein". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
Amrhein, Valentin (2004). "Singing activity and spatial behaviour as sexually selected traits in the nightingale (Doctoral thesis with Curriculum vitae)" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-03-25.
Amrhein, Valentin; Greenland, Sander; McShane, Blake (2019). "Scientists rise up against statistical significance". Nature. 567 (7748): 305–307. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00857-9. PMID 30894741.
Amrhein, Valentin; Greenland, Sander (2018). "Remove, rather than redefine statistical significance". Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (1): 4. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0224-0. PMID 30980046.
Amrhein, Valentin; Korner-Nievergelt, Fränzi; Roth, Tobias (2017). "The earth is flat (p > 0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research". PeerJ. 5: e3544. doi:10.7717/peerj.3544. PMC 5502092. PMID 28698825.
"Research of the Month: It's time to retire statistical significance". Retrieved 2019-06-04.
Andreas Fahrländer (2016), "Das Paradies für schrille Vögel", Bz Basel (in German), retrieved 2019-03-25
"Ornithologischer Beobachter". Retrieved 2020-04-11.

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