Statistical significance in psychological research.
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Statistical significance in psychological research.
Most theories in the areas of personality, clinical, and social psychology predict no more than the direction of a correlation, group difference, or treatment effect. Since the null hypothesis is never strictly true, such predictions have about a SO-SO chance of being confirmed by experiment when the theory in question is false, since the statistical significance of the result is a function of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Bulletin
سال: 1968
ISSN: 1939-1455,0033-2909
DOI: 10.1037/h0026141