On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Manuel Spínola <mspinol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think there is a confusion about hypothesis testing that Jane was > referring to in the original post. We are moving away from her questions.
Well, I was asking about both types of hypothesis testing. They're different things but strongly reinforce each other. Best, Jane > On 01/03/2011 10:50 a.m., Matt Chew wrote: >> >> Ecology without hypotheses has been dismissed (sometimes derided) as >> natural >> history, but even natural history requires one hypothesis. Reporting an >> observation requires>0 confidence that an observation is meaningful, can >> be >> communicated, and can be interpreted. There are also tacit hypotheses >> inherent in scale, including the duration, extent and complexity of >> natural >> history observations. >> >> Hypothesis testing is a particularly relevant topic in US ecology at the >> moment because choices made in establishing the NEON program involve >> numerous hypotheses about ecosystem identity, composition, extent and >> location, the relevance of potential instrumentation and particular >> scales. >> However, the term 'hypothesis' is absent from NEON's website ( >> http://www.neoninc.org ). Explicit hypothesis testing done under NEON >> auspices will be subject to an array of tacit hypotheses, none of which >> have >> been articulated (or, it seems, even considered) by NEON's creators and >> promoters. Any supposedly non-hypothetical work conducted under NEON will >> face the same challenge. >> >> Matthew K Chew >> Assistant Research Professor >> Arizona State University School of Life Sciences >> >> ASU Center for Biology& Society >> PO Box 873301 >> Tempe, AZ 85287-3301 USA >> Tel 480.965.8422 >> Fax 480.965.8330 >> mc...@asu.edu or anek...@gmail.com >> http://cbs.asu.edu/people/profiles/chew.php >> http://asu.academia.edu/MattChew >> >> > > > -- > *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* > Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre > Universidad Nacional > Apartado 1350-3000 > Heredia > COSTA RICA > mspin...@una.ac.cr > mspinol...@gmail.com > Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 > Fax: (506) 2237-7036 > Personal website: Lobito de río <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> > Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> > -- ------------- Jane Shevtsov Ecology Ph.D. candidate, University of Georgia co-founder, <www.worldbeyondborders.org> Check out my blog, <http://perceivingwholes.blogspot.com>Perceiving Wholes "In the long run, education intended to produce a molecular geneticist, a systems ecologist, or an immunologist is inferior, both for the individual and for society, than that intended to produce a broadly educated person who has also written a dissertation." --John Janovy, Jr., "On Becoming a Biologist"
