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Does the finding of statistical significance justify the rejection of the null hypothesis?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

David Sohn
David Sohn
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223–0001 dsohn@email.uncc.edu
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Abstract

The soundness of Chow's (1996; 1998a) argument depends on the soundness of his assertion that statistical significance may be understood to signify that chance may be excluded as the reason for results. The examples and arguments provided here show that statistical significance signifies no such thing.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 293 - 294
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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