{"id":10620,"date":"2018-10-22T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=10620"},"modified":"2018-10-22T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:31:08","slug":"on-the-irrelevance-of-hypothesis-testing-in-the-computer-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/10\/on-the-irrelevance-of-hypothesis-testing-in-the-computer-age\/","title":{"rendered":"On the irrelevance of hypothesis testing in the computer age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.3758\/BF03204506\">Geoffrey R. Loftus<\/a> in Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, &#038; Computers 1993, 25 (2), 25() 256<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hypothesis testing, while by far the most common statistical technique for generating conclusions from data, is nonetheless not very informative. It emphasizes a banal and confusing question (\u201cIs it true that some set of population means are not all identical to one another?\u201d) whose answer is, in a mathematical sense, almost inevitably known (\u201cNo\u201d). Hypothesis testing, as it is customarily implemented, ignores two issues that are generally much more interesting, important, and relevant: What is thepattern of population means over conditions, and what are the magnitudes of various variability measures (e.g., standard errors of the mean, estimates of population standard deviations)?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>so auch in <a href=\"https:\/\/kops.uni-konstanz.de\/handle\/123456789\/21776\">G. Lind<\/a> &#8220;Effektst\u00e4rken: Statistische, praktische und theoretische Bedeutsamkeit empirischer Befunde&#8221;, Privatdruck 2012<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Was aber selten (viel zu selten!) in Erw\u00e4gung gezogen wird, ist die M\u00f6glichkeit, Befunde auf ihre theoretische, inhaltliche Bedeut- samkeit hin zu untersuchen: Welche Wertedifferenz ist f\u00fcr unser subjektives Empfinden und unsere Handlungen bedeutsam? Ab welcher Effektst\u00e4rke k\u00f6nnen wir davon sprechen, dass eine Therapie- methode oder eine p\u00e4dagogische Intervention wirklich etwas bringen und den Aufwand lohnen, den alle Beteiligten investieren m\u00fcssen? Tritt der Effekt immer oder nur unter bestimmten Bedingungen auf? Ist er an Besonderheiten der Studie (Umfang des Samples, Streuung der unabh\u00e4ngigen Variablen) gebunden? Passt der Effekt zu dem, was wir bereits \u00fcber die Variablen wissen, die wir untersuchen, oder stellt er fundiert geglaubte Theorien in Frage?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 30.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey R. Loftus in Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, &#038; Computers 1993, 25 (2), 25() 256 Hypothesis testing, while by far the most common statistical technique for generating conclusions from data, is nonetheless not very informative. It emphasizes a banal and confusing question (\u201cIs it true that some set of population means are not all identical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/10\/on-the-irrelevance-of-hypothesis-testing-in-the-computer-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the irrelevance of hypothesis testing in the computer age<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}