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Editorial, Your Null Hypothesis Must Be False: Test It Anyway, Frank Corotto
Editorial, Your Null Hypothesis Must Be False: Test It Anyway, Frank Corotto
Georgia Journal of Science
A historical criticism of null hypothesis testing is that a null hypothesis cannot be correct in the first place. The reason that many nulls cannot be correct is that what makes a null hypothesis a null hypothesis is its infinite precision. Only an infinitely precise hypothesis can be used to generate an infinitely precise prediction, such as t will be zero. It is around that infinitely precise prediction that we would construct a probability density function. If you are thinking, I just want to know if the difference is significant, and if you mean important, a null …