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- From: kym@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: statistical significance
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.205348.24819@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:53:48 GMT
- Article-I.D.: newserve.1992Aug19.205348.24819
- Sender: usenet@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu (Mr News)
- Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
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- Apropos of something is was yammering about a week ago the following is
- reposted here -- without the permission of the authors :-) -- from another
- newsgroup. I'm afraid I don't know Jerry, but Herman Rubin is at least a
- mathematician with statistical leanings. ;-)
-
- -kym
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- From: jerry@ginger.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: <None>
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.123601.304@ginger.hnrc.tufts.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 17:35:58 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.152355.16237@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <57241@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University
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- In article <57241@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- > As for statistical significance, neither I nor anyone else has been able
- > to come up with any good reason to use it; it is a leftover from the time
- > when it was misinterpreted.
-
- I agree whole-heartedly. The real problem is that many people have come up
- with good *ways* to *mis*use it, from requiring statistical significance as a
- prerequisite for publication to concentrating on statistical significance while
- ignoring practical significance. I see no quick way out of these traps,
- although things seem to be improving ever so slightly over the long haul. (Like
- the hour hand on the clock, you don't see it move, but it moves.)
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