A plea for Popperian significance testing

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (2):220-221 (1998)
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Abstract

Even in a theory corroboration context, attention to effect size is called for if significance testing is to be of any value. I sketch a Popperian construal of significance tests that better fits into scientific inference as a whole. Because of its many errors Chow's book cannot be recommended to the novice.

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