"Karl L. Wuensch" wrote: > I've never seen a true null, why should I make all > this fuss about testing it? ;-)
Do you know the direction in which it's false? If you do (know the direction, that is), then I agree, don't bother. In fact, any medical study in which the direction of the effect is truly known would be unethical since some subjects would be guaranteed to be receiving a treatment known to be inferior. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
