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The historical case against null-hypothesis significance testing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Henderikus J. Stam  and
Grant A. Pasay
Henderikus J. Stam
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 [email protected] www.psych.ucalgary.ca/people/faculty/stam/
Grant A. Pasay
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 [email protected] www.psych.ucalgary.ca/people/faculty/stam/
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Abstract

We argue that Chow's defense of hypothesis-testing procedures attempts to restore an aura of objectivity to the core procedures, allowing these to take on the role of judgment that should be reserved for the researcher. We provide a brief overview of what we call the historical case against hypothesis testing and argue that the latter has led to a constrained and simplified conception of what passes for theory in psychology.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 219 - 220
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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