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The null hypothesis is unrejectable. Heh. Downmod.
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
The null hypothesis is unrejectable.
Heh. Downmod.
- cshimmin 11y agoNull hypothesis: There is so such thing as toast. Experiment: I had toast for breakfast. Null hypothesis rejected.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI believe "There is no such thing as toast." is only a theorem. Theorems may be rejected all day long. Edit: A null hypothesis in this schema would be something like (a bit ridiculous, but not my example): If toast exists and I eat it for breakfast, I should be able to detect that I ate it for breakfast at a higher rate than the false positive rate of my ability to determine whether what I eat for breakfast is or is not toast. Keep downmodding. Or, you know, refute what I have said.
- oldmanjay 11y agoI didn't vote on your comment but I can't make enough sense out of it to write a refutation. There is a sort of "evolution is only a theory" flavor to the whole thing.
- krick 11y agoYou could just open the Wikipedia, you know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis the term "null hypothesis" usually refers to a general statement or default position that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena, or no difference among groups Rejecting or disproving the null hypothesis — and thus concluding that there are grounds for believing that there is a relationship between two phenomena — is a central task in the modern practice of science, and gives a precise criterion for rejecting a hypothesis.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoWhat is the relevance of this wikipedia quote to my comment?