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Statistical significance testing was not meant for weak corroborations of weaker theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Fred L. Bookstein
Fred L. Bookstein
Affiliation:
Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 [email protected]
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Abstract

Chow sets his version of statistical significance testing in an impoverished context of “theory corroboration” that explicitly excludes well-posed theories admitting of strong support by precise empirical evidence. He demonstrates no scientific usefulness for the problematic procedure he recommends instead. The important role played by significance testing in today's behavioral and brain sciences is wholly inconsistent with the rhetoric he would enforce.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 195 - 196
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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