Many times I held my breath while observing the debate on Inappropriate Hypothesis Testing, but now it seems to have reached closure, I sincerely wish to compliment all concerned - those who participated, and those who held their silence for whatever reason (although I personally would have liked to hear what some prominent members of this list were thinking). In my opinion this debate did expose some important issues for we who teach, read, and use statistics: in particular it came to the heart of the matter concerning inference, but it also revealed differences concerning the relevance of statistics. For a psychologist, this debate is a classic case study in the conduct of e-mail discussion. Frank Bokhorst http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/psychology/bok _O tel: 021 650-3708 -\<, fax: 021 689-7572 One car less .... (.)/(.) Psychology Dept., The owner of this bicycle University of takes responsibility for Cape Town, the shape of his drawing Rondebosch 7701, only if you use a fixed South Africa. size font such as Courier. ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
