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Gorard, Stephen; White, Patrick – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
In their response to our paper, Nicholson and Ridgway agree with the majority of what we wrote. They echo our concerns about the misuse of inferential statistics and NHST in particular. Very little of their response explicitly challenges the points we made but where it does their defence of the use of inferential techniques does not stand up to…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Statistics, Statistical Significance, Probability
Nicholson, James; Ridgway, Jim – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
White and Gorard make important and relevant criticisms of some of the methods commonly used in social science research, but go further by criticising the logical basis for inferential statistical tests. This paper comments briefly on matters we broadly agree on with them and more fully on matters where we disagree. We agree that too little…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Statistics, Teaching Methods, Criticism