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Record W4251206885 · doi:10.35542/osf.io/j4rdv

Null Hypothesis Significance Testing: A Brief Review

2021· review· en· W4251206885 on OpenAlexaff
Xuejun Ryan Ji

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typereview
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Statistical Modeling Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNull hypothesisPsychologyInterpretation (philosophy)Statistical hypothesis testingEconometricsStatisticsComputer scienceMathematics

Abstract

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Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) dominates the interpretation of quantitative data analysis in education, psychology, and other social science fields (Shaver, 1993). Meanwhile, the use of NHST has been under enduring and intense criticisms (Carver, 1978; Cohen, 1997; Cumming, 2013; Thompson, 1993, 1996, 1999). In 2015, the journal, Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP; Trafimow & Marks, 2015) banned the use of NHST, reigniting another round of intense discussions about whether continue using the NHST technique. In the present paper, I have elaborated the definition of NHST and six most commonmisinterpretations/false beliefs, and suggested reporting strategies, including reporting effect size along with its interval estimates. Finally, I briefly commented on the causes of misconceptions

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.032
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.100
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.968
Threshold uncertainty score0.170

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0320.100
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.004
Bibliometrics0.0110.011
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.005
Open science0.0050.002
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.215
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.175 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
DomainMethods
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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