In this response we first show that Simpson’s proposed analysis answers a different and less
interesting question than ours. We then justify the choice of prior for our Bayes factors
calculations, but also demonstrate that the substantive conclusions of our article are not
substantially affected by varying this choice
History
School
Science
Department
Mathematics Education Centre
Published in
Educational Researcher
Volume
48
Issue
6
Pages
385-387
Citation
LORTIE-FORGUES, H. and INGLIS, M., 2019. The value of consensus priors: A response to Simpson. Educational Researcher, In Press.
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Educational Researcher and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X19863426