"Herman Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David Heiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is hard to overcome religious indoctrination. > > >David Heiser PDE (plain dumb engineer) > --------------------------------------------------------------- Yes Herman you are right here.
I have really been surprised about the "fuzzyness" in the approach to hypothesis testing in the courses taught in the psychology departments. Of interest is the recent article in TAS (August 2003) by Hubbbard and Bayarri "Confusion Over Measures of Evidence (p's) versus Errors (alpha's) in Classical Statistical Testing". Also of interest is the article by Ronald C. Serlin, "Constructive Criticism" in the Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, Fall 2002, Vol, No. 2, pages 202-237 (available from the internet). The issue of confidence intervals was and still is a problem. confidence interval p values that really are ? I found the chapter in "The Lady Tasting Tea" on the introduction of confidence intervals to the British Royal Society interesting. Engineers can understand uncertainty. I am not sure they can understand anything more complicated than that. David Heiser . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
