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Moving Beyond Traditional Null Hypothesis Testing: Evaluating Expectations Directly

This mini-review illustrates that testing the traditional null hypothesis is not always the appropriate strategy. Half in jest, we discuss Aristotle's scientific investigations into the shape of the earth in the context of evaluating the traditional null hypothesis. We conclude that Aristotle w...

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Autores principales: de Schoot, Rens Van, Hoijtink, Herbert, Jan-Willem, Romeijn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21713172
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00024
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description This mini-review illustrates that testing the traditional null hypothesis is not always the appropriate strategy. Half in jest, we discuss Aristotle's scientific investigations into the shape of the earth in the context of evaluating the traditional null hypothesis. We conclude that Aristotle was actually interested in evaluating informative hypotheses. In contemporary science the situation is not much different. That is, many researchers have no particular interest in the traditional null hypothesis. More can be learned from data by evaluating specific expectations, or so-called informative hypotheses, than by testing the traditional null hypothesis. These informative hypotheses will be introduced while providing an overview of the literature on evaluating informative hypothesis.
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spelling pubmed-31112162011-06-27 Moving Beyond Traditional Null Hypothesis Testing: Evaluating Expectations Directly de Schoot, Rens Van Hoijtink, Herbert Jan-Willem, Romeijn Front Psychol Psychology This mini-review illustrates that testing the traditional null hypothesis is not always the appropriate strategy. Half in jest, we discuss Aristotle's scientific investigations into the shape of the earth in the context of evaluating the traditional null hypothesis. We conclude that Aristotle was actually interested in evaluating informative hypotheses. In contemporary science the situation is not much different. That is, many researchers have no particular interest in the traditional null hypothesis. More can be learned from data by evaluating specific expectations, or so-called informative hypotheses, than by testing the traditional null hypothesis. These informative hypotheses will be introduced while providing an overview of the literature on evaluating informative hypothesis. Frontiers Research Foundation 2011-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3111216/ /pubmed/21713172 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00024 Text en Copyright © 2011 Van de Schoot, Hoijtink and Jan-Willem. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to an exclusive license agreement between the authors and Frontiers Media SA, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111216/
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