Separate substantive from statistical hypotheses and treat them differently.


Journal

The Behavioral and brain sciences
ISSN: 1469-1825
Titre abrégé: Behav Brain Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7808666

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 02 2022
Historique:
entrez: 10 2 2022
pubmed: 11 2 2022
medline: 11 2 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

I suggest addressing the problems Yarkoni identifies by separating substantive from statistical hypotheses, and treating them differently. A statistical test of experimental data only bears directly on statistical hypotheses. Evaluation of related substantive hypotheses requires an additional, qualitative inference to the best explanation. Statistical inference cannot do all of the work of theory choice.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35139947
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21000157
pii: S0140525X21000157
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Comment

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e9

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentOn

Auteurs

Mike Dacey (M)

Department of Philosophy, Bates College, Lewiston, ME04240, USA. mdacey@bates.edu; mikedacey.net.

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