Watching this discussion, and seeing various people express their highly refined and delicate sensibilities about this use of this word, I begin to wonder whether something so incredibly arcane and fragile as statistical "significance" is really worth all the trouble. Perhaps we need a more robust measure of .., uh ... relevance? importance? ... to ground psychological research. Bayes much?
Or, perhaps need to come down off their high horses a little bit. Although there is no doubt that there is much abuse of statistical methods (in psychology and, well, just about everywhere else), this discussion is beginning to remind me of those impossibly exacting discussions some like to get into over the "correct" way to cite things in APA style. (It's just a convention folks, not metaphysical access to the absolute.) Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= On 2013-04-23, at 10:23 AM, Marc Carter wrote: > Many thanks to all for the reassurance. I always tell my students, > "significance" is like being pregnant: one either is pregnant or one is not; > it does not admit of degree. (Although those of you who have borne children > might disagree!) > > I also got some new ideas for how I might talk about some of these things > with my students. This is a great listserv. > > Thanks again, > > m > > -- > Marc Carter, PhD > Associate Professor of Psychology > Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences > College of Arts & Sciences > Baker University > -- > > > The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto > ("e-mail") is sent by Baker University ("BU") and is intended to be > confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. > The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures > acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or > copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > e-mail in error please immediately notify Baker University by email reply and > immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments > thereto. Thank you. > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=25179 > or send a blank email to > leave-25179-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=25182 or send a blank email to leave-25182-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
