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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/06/statcheck-the-game.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>If you don't get enough joy from publishing scientific papers in your day job, or simply want to experience what it's like to be in a publish-or-perish environment where the P-value is the only important part of a paper, you might want to try <a rel="nofollow" href="https://sachaepskamp.github.io/StatcheckTheGame/" target="_blank">StatCheck</a>: the board game where the object is to publish two papers before any of your opponents.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b0224e03e5b29200d-pi" target="_blank"><img alt="Statchecklogo" title="Statchecklogo" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b0224e03e5b29200d-400wi"></a></p>
<p>As the game progresses, players combine &quot;Test&quot;, &quot;Statistic&quot; and &quot;P-value&quot; cards to form the statistical test featured in the paper (and of course, significant tests are worth more than non-significant ones). Opponents may then have the opportunity to play a &quot;StatCheck&quot; card to challenge the validity of the test, which can then be verified using a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/statcheck/index.html" target="_blank">companion R package</a> or <a rel="nofollow" href="https://sachaepskamp.shinyapps.io/statcheck/" target="_blank">online Shiny application</a>. Other modifier cards include &quot;Bayes Factor&quot; (which can be used to boost the value of your own papers, or diminish the value of an opponents'), &quot;Post-Hoc Theory&quot; (improving the value of already-published papers), and &quot;Behind the Paywall&quot; (making it more difficult to challenge the validity of your statistics).</p>
<p>StatCheck The Game was created by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sachaepskamp.com/" target="_blank">Sacha Epskamp</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.adelaisvoranu.com/" target="_blank">Adela Isvoranu</a>, who provide all the the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/SachaEpskamp/StatcheckTheGame" target="_blank">code to create the cards</a> as open source on GitHub, along with instructions to print and play with your own game materials. You can find everything you need (except the needed 8-sided die and some like-minded friends to play with) at the link below.</p>
<p>StatCheck: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://sachaepskamp.github.io/StatcheckTheGame/" target="_blank">An open source game for methodological terrorists</a>!</p>
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