Joachim Krueger (1998) Getting to the Core of the Data by Testing Against Alternative Hypotheses
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Psycoloquy 9(70): Getting to the Core of the Data by Testing Against Alternative Hypotheses
GETTING TO THE CORE OF THE DATA BY TESTING AGAINST ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES
Reply to Hamm on Krueger on Social-Bias
Joachim Krueger
Department of Psychology
Brown University, Box 1853
Providence, RI 02912
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Psychology/faculty/krueger.html
Joachim_Krueger@Brown.edu
Abstract
Hamm (1998) endorses and elaborates two of the suggested
remedies for ritualistic null hypothesis testing, namely, (1)
testing alternative substantive hypotheses and (2) attempting to
account for individual differences in judgment. However, the
empirical example offered as an illustration of these methods
appears to confuse rather than clarify them. I offer a
counterexample from research on social projection to illustrate
both remedies and to underscore the point that they offer distinct
benefits which can be observed within the same data set.
Keywords
hypothesis testing, Bayes' Rule, rationality, projection.
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