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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
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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
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Callister Everson, Kimberlee; Feinauer, Erika; Sudweeks, Richard R. – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
In this article, the authors provide a methodological critique of the current standard of value-added modeling forwarded in educational policy contexts as a means of measuring teacher effectiveness. Conventional value-added estimates of teacher quality are attempts to determine to what degree a teacher would theoretically contribute, on average,…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Accountability
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Killeen, Peter R. – Psychological Methods, 2010
Lecoutre, Lecoutre, and Poitevineau (2010) have provided sophisticated grounding for "p[subscript rep]." Computing it precisely appears, fortunately, no more difficult than doing so approximately. Their analysis will help move predictive inference into the mainstream. Iverson, Wagenmakers, and Lee (2010) have also validated…
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Measurement Techniques, Research Design, Research Methodology
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Cumming, Geoff – Psychological Methods, 2010
This comment offers three descriptions of "p[subscript rep]" that start with a frequentist account of confidence intervals, draw on R. A. Fisher's fiducial argument, and do not make Bayesian assumptions. Links are described among "p[subscript rep]," "p" values, and the probability a confidence interval will capture…
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Measurement Techniques, Research Methodology, Validity
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Griffiths, Thomas L.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. – Cognition, 2007
People's reactions to coincidences are often cited as an illustration of the irrationality of human reasoning about chance. We argue that coincidences may be better understood in terms of rational statistical inference, based on their functional role in processes of causal discovery and theory revision. We present a formal definition of…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistical Inference, Bayesian Statistics, Theories
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Lee, Michael D.; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan – Psychological Review, 2005
This paper comments on the response offered by Trafimow on Lee and Wagenmakers comments on Trafimow's original article. It seems our comment should have made it clear that the objective Bayesian approach we advocate views probabilities neither as relative frequencies nor as belief states, but as degrees of plausibility assigned to propositions in…
Descriptors: Researchers, Probability, Statistical Inference, Bayesian Statistics