4 ms·
Just taking this quick opportunity to post a link to my favorite journal, the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis: http://www.jasnh.com/ http:
by mherdeg 10y ago
Just taking this quick opportunity to post a link to my favorite journal, the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis: http://www.jasnh.com/ http://www.jasnh.com/ .
JASNH is designed to accept papers that say "we tested for X effect on Y and found no evidence that X affects Y". Traditionally instead of publishing this kind of research people would keep changing parameters around until they got some kind of positive and presumably career-advancing result.
I am a huge fan of JASNH because of the reminder that "falsifiability" can and should happen.
They seem to be mostly getting behavioral-science style submissions but I am pretty sure based on their charter they would take anything.
- Retric 10y agoA basic problem is null results don't mean X is not related to Y. It means the connection between X and Y is less than the sensitivity of this test. So, if you study the same thing 20 times and only 5 of them show a relationship that does not mean there is no relationship.
- aab0 10y ago(Usually we call that 'power', not 'sensitivity', in a null hypothesis testing framework.)
- gohrt 10y agoJASNH is cool, but it's not about falsifiability. JASNH, as it says right in the name, is about not falsifying the null hypothesis. The other journals are full of articles falsifying (null) hypotheses.
- Bromskloss 10y agoNot falsifying the null hypothesis, but falsifying _other_ claims.
- mherdeg 10y agoThat's a good point! Thanks for calling that out.