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hypothesis testing

2 posts tagged hypothesis testing from Mean Methods.

The Look-Elsewhere Effect: Why Your 'Significant' Finding Is Probably a Trick of the Search Space

The look-elsewhere effect explains why scanning enough data for a bump will always find one, even in pure noise.

NHST tells you how surprising your data is if nothing is happening, not whether your hypothesis is true. Here's why that gap destroys research.

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