This is Part II of my commentary on Stephen Senn’s guest post, Be Careful What You Wish For. In this follow-up, I take up two topics: (1) A terminological point raised in the comments to Part I, and (2) A broader concern about how a popular reform movement reinforces precisely the mistaken construal Senn warns against. […]| Error Statistics Philosophy
Have the points in Stephen Senn’s guest post fully come across? Responding to comments from diverse directions has given Senn a lot of work, for which I’m very grateful. But I say we s…| Error Statistics Philosophy
Stephen Senn Consultant Statistician Edinburgh Relevant significance? Be careful what you wish for Despised and Rejected Scarcely a good word can be had for statistical significance these days. We are admonished (as if we did not know) that just because a null hypothesis has been ‘rejected’ by some statistical test, it does not mean […]| Error Statistics Philosophy
