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On the position of statistical significance in the epistemology of experimental science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Charles E. Boklage
Charles E. Boklage
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, East Carolina University, Laboratory of Behavioral and Developmental Genetics, Greenville, NC 27858-4354 [email protected]
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Abstract

Although various statistical measures may have other valid uses, the single purpose served by statistical significance testing in the epistemology of experimental science is as a peremptory rebuttal of one potential alternative interpretation of the data.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 195
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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