WE NEED STATISTICAL THINKING, NOT STATISTICAL RITUALS

Authors
GIGERENZER G
Citation
G. Gigerenzer, WE NEED STATISTICAL THINKING, NOT STATISTICAL RITUALS, Behavioral and brain sciences, 21(2), 1998, pp. 199
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Biological",Neurosciences,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Behavioral and brain sciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
0140525X
Volume
21
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(1998)21:2<199:WNSTNS>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Chow calls NHSTP is an inconsistent hybrid of Fisherian and Neyman-Pea rsonian ideas. In psychology it has been practiced like ritualistic ha ndwashing and sustained by wishful thinking about its utility. Chow ar gues that NHSTP is an important tool for ruling out chance as an expla nation for data. I disagree. This ritual discourages theory develop me nt by providing researchers with no incentive to specify hypotheses.