title: Too much success for recent groundbreaking epigenetic experiments.
abstract: An article reporting statistical evidence for epigenetic transfer of learned behavior has important implications, if true. With random sampling, real effects do not always result in rejection of the null hypothesis, but the reported experiments were uniformly successful. Such an outcome is expected to occur with a probability of 0.004.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8634-794X
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Francis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D005239:Fear; D051379:Mice; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012903:Smell / Q000235:genetics
keywords: behavior; epigenetics; methods; power; statistics