Deborah Mayo on statistical significance testing [embedded content] Although yours truly appreciate much of Mayo’s philosophical-statistical work, it is essential to remember that her qualified use of ‘severe testing’ actually is pretty far from the usual day to day practice of significance testing among applied social scientists today. If, however, statistics users stuck to Mayo’s ‘severe testing,’ there would be less reason to criticize the modern frequentist position on statistical inference.
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Deborah Mayo on statistical significance testing
Although yours truly appreciate much of Mayo’s philosophical-statistical work, it is essential to remember that her qualified use of ‘severe testing’ actually is pretty far from the usual day to day practice of significance testing among applied social scientists today. If, however, statistics users stuck to Mayo’s ‘severe testing,’ there would be less reason to criticize the modern frequentist position on statistical inference.