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The absurdity of hypothesis testing

December 31, 2018 By editor

Great quote on the use of hypothesis testing by @JPdeRuiter.

Reject a specific null, and then argue for an arbitrary alternative. It’s indeed pretty remarkable that so few people see how absurd this procedure is.

Filed Under: Data science Tagged With: hypothesis testing, statistics

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