When Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Is Unsuitable for Research: A Reassessment

When Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Is Unsuitable for Research: A Reassessment

Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has several shortcomings that are likely contributing factors behind the widely debated replication crisis of (cognitive) neuroscience, psychology, and biomedical science in general. We review these shortcomings and suggest that, after sustained negative experience, NHST should no longer be the default, dominant statistical practice of all biomedical ...

Null hypothesis significance testing: a short tutorial

Although thoroughly criticized, null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) remains the statistical method of choice used to provide evidence for an effect, in biological, biomedical and social sciences. In this short tutorial, I first summarize the concepts behind the method, distinguishing test of significance (Fisher) and test of acceptance (Newman-Pearson) and point to common interpretation...

Persistent Misconceptions concerning Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

ABTRACT The Null Hypothesis Significance Test is a popular testing procedure used mainly in the social sciences and occasionally in the natural sciences. The procedure has been criticized on several grounds. Firstly, opponents have attacked the procedure itself, claiming that it either does not tell the researcher what he or she wants to know; and/or that the procedure is not logically valid. S...

Population finiteness is not a concern for null hypothesis significance testing when studying human behavior. A reply to Pollet (2013)

Citation: Quillien T (2015) Population finiteness is not a concern for null hypothesis significance testing when studying human behavior. A reply to Pollet (2013). A commentary on Much ado about p. What does a p-value mean when testing hypotheses with aggregated cross-cultural data in the field of evolution and human behavior? Pollet (2013) recently questioned the use of Null Hypothesis Signifi...

The Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Debate and Its Implications for Personality Research