Statistical Significance Testing From Three Perspectives
Joel R. Levin · The Journal of Experimental Education · 1993
LET ME BEGIN by extending accolades to the authors of these provocative papers for awakening our consciousness about the potential problems and pitfalls of advancing science through significance testing. The operative word in the pre ceding sentence is potential, however, for in my generic comments I will attempt to make a case?albeit a rudimentary one?in defense of significance testing. I will do so for two reasons.