The use is a highly irritating conflation of a dichotomous decision and an indication of effect size.
Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor and Assistant Chairperson Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 4/22/2013 2:03 PM, Marc Carter wrote:
Hi, All -- A poll: Am I being too picky about the use of the phrase, "highly significant" (or something similar) when it's used to describe a very low-probability result? It sort of drives me crazy; all I can hear is my graduate math stats teacher threatening to kill us if we ever said something like that. I still read it in papers and it's like fingernails on a chalkboard. But perhaps I should just chill out? What do you think? m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts& Sciences Baker University --
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