At 04:00 PM 4/7/00 -0500, Michael Granaas wrote:
>But whatever form hypothesis testing takes it must first and formost be
>viewed in the context of the question being asked.
this seems to be the key to REinventing ourselves ... make sure the focus
is on the question ... AND, to REshape the question FROM what we
traditionally do in hyp test ...
set up the null, etc. etc
to ... ask the question of real interest ...
what effect DOES this new treatment have?
what kind of correlation IS there between X and Y?
what IS the difference between the smartness of democrats and republicans?
if you ask questions that way ... they do not naturally or sensibly lead to
our testing the typical null hypotheses we set up
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