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Daily Archive June 13th, 2007

Should you test for statistical significance?

Filed in Research News ,SJDM
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ARGUMENTS AGAINST ALL SIGNIFICANCE TESTS This week, the always-provocative J. Scott Armstrong submits this comment to Decision Science News: “About two years ago, I was a reasonable person who argued that tests of statistical significance were useful in some limited situations. After completing research for “Significance tests harm progress in forecasting” in the International Journal […]