Hypothesis Testing is a Bad Idea (my talk at Warwick, England, 2:30pm Thurs 15 Sept)

This is the conference, and here's my talk (will do Google hangout, just as with my recent talks in Bern, Strasbourg, etc): Through a series of examples, we consider problems with classical hypothesis testing, whether performed using classical p-values or confidence intervals, Bayes factors, or Bayesian inference using noninformative priors. We locate the problem not in the use of any particular statistical method but rather with larger problems of deterministic thinking and a misguided version of Popperianism in which the rejection of a straw-man null hypothesis is taken as confirmation of a preferred alternative. We suggest solutions involving multilevel modeling and informative Bayesian inference. The post Hypothesis Testing is a Bad Idea (my talk at Warwick, England, 2:30pm Thurs 15 Sept) appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. The post Hypothesis Testing is a Bad Idea (my talk at Warwick, England, 2:30pm Thurs 15 Sept) appeared first on All About Statistics.