Alan McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
sci.stat.edu:
>Stan, in practical terms, the conclusion 'fail to reject the null' is
>simply not true. You do in reality 'accept the null'. The catch is that
>this is, in the research situation, a tentative acceptance - you
>recognise that you may be wrong, so you carry forward the idea that the
>null may be 'true' but - on the sample evifdence - probably is not.
>
>On the other hand, this should also be the case when you 'reject the
>null' - the rejection may be wrong, so the rejection is also tentative.
>The difference is that the null has this privileged position.........
Thanks -- that makes some sense.
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