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The observation above is simply true. If you toss a coin 30 times, there's about a 5% chance that you'll end up with 10-20 ratio or one more extreme. NHST test
by tgv 3y ago
The observation above is simply true. If you toss a coin 30 times, there's about a 5% chance that you'll end up with 10-20 ratio or one more extreme.
NHST testing inverts the probability logic, makes the 5% holy, and skims over the high probability of finding something that is not equal to a specific value. That procedure is then used for theory confirmation, while it was (in another form) meant for falsification. Everything is wrong about it, even if the experimental method is flawless. Hence the reproducibility crisis.