Quad wrote: > What slightly disqualifiy these results are statements like this: > > -extremely high degree of statistical confidence > barely statistically significant difference- > > Statistical significance is a zero/one decision. Either it is > significant or it is not. You can't tell anything more. > > Disclaimer: I don't claim to hear a difference between MP3 320kbps and > FLAC and I'm looking forward to Archimago's Musings.
garym wrote: > Well, I understand your point, but I respectfully disagree. Without > digging two deeply into experimental design, in my own field we tend to > look at statistical tests of hypotheses and consider things like > parameter estimates from something like an OLS regression equation or > ANOVA, etc. and we want to know the p-value associated with the > parameter estimate rather than only whether the estimate is either > significant or not based on the pre-planned significance level > cutoff.<snip> Exactly. Statistical significance is only "significant or not" with respect to a particular (and generally arbitrary) cutoff value such as 0.01, 0.05, etc. The relevant underlying statistic, the p-value, is continuous, not binary. So there is nothing wrong with the "extremely high degree" or "barely significant" statements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97530 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
