Hi Michael,
This sounds to me like lousy experimental design. Surely the purpose of the
experiment is to distinguish between competing theoretical models?
Michael Granaas wrote:
> But in some areas in psychology you will have a situation where many
> theoretical perspectives predict the same outcome relative to a zero
> valued null while the zero valued null reflects no theoretical
> perspective. In this situation rejecting a zero valued null supports all
> theoretical perspectives equally and differentiates among none of them.
and I think that is what you are saying here.
> I agree that measurement is a problem, but even with good measurement the
> lack of connection between statistical hypotheses and theoretical
> predictions is a fatal flaw in too many areas.
>
Regards,
Alan
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Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne
Tel: +61 03 9903 2102 Fax: +61 03 9903 2007
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