Some of us in the minority would not follow what might be "fashionable." I am
one of those who believe hypothesis testing is still an important and integral
part of statistics. Hypothesis testing is but one tool in the whole arsenal
however. OTH, I'm an old guy who went through graduate school way back in the
60s. Teaching old dogs new tricks is not easy, right? If such a vote were
taken today with the results suggested by Mr.Roberts, I know I have
successfully misled literally thousands of students. Would re-education be the
answer?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>let's say that today ... we as the statistical community decided, by
>democratic vote, that the concept of 'hypothesis testing' ... which has
>essentially dominated statistical work for as long as i can remember
>(which, .... er um ... is a LOT of years!) ... is relegated to the 'we
>USED to do this stuff' category
>
>just THINK about this ....
>
>what would the vast majority of folks who either do inferential work
>and/or teach it ... DO????
>what analyses would they be doing? what would they be teaching?
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