http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2008/12/26/again-with-the-null-hypothesis-significance-testing/ "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:58:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2008/12/26/again-with-the-null-hypothesis-significance-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-17598 roberto Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:09:28 +0000 http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/?p=3221#comment-17598 Interesting results are usually not abaundoned, expecially when it appears that significance was not obtained due to the small sample number. The problem arises in study e.g. where patients are intrinsecally few ("orphan"). You must also consider that many very incongruent "statistically significative" conclusions are published, as p<0.05 it means 1 over 20 times I do find significance, failed studies are mostly not published, so the one remained, here is it! Apart this we all knew that statistics is usually unclear to common people; you stress that He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. But you must admit that statistcs' assertions like "I do not refuse to reject the null hypothesis" probably are not the best way to be popular.. best regards. Interesting results are usually not abaundoned, expecially when it appears that significance was not obtained due to the small sample number. The problem arises in study e.g. where patients are intrinsecally few (“orphan”).
You must also consider that many very incongruent “statistically significative” conclusions are published, as p<0.05 it means 1 over 20 times I do find significance, failed studies are mostly not published, so the one remained, here is it!
Apart this we all knew that statistics is usually unclear to common people; you stress that He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. But you must admit that statistcs’ assertions like “I do not refuse to reject the null hypothesis” probably are not the best way to be popular.. best regards.

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