The fall of the null hypothesis: Liabilities and opportunities

摘要: The collapse of null hypothesis significance testing as a statistical paradigm has created liabilities and opportunities in wildlife science. One liability is that some formalism for testing, such likelihood with information theory, will simply replace rote approach to principal intellectual instrument the scientist remains research hypothesis, not hypothesis. Accordingly, 1 opportunity arising from change paradigms move foreground science, background. A second broadening suite inferential methods considered orthodox Realization these should help scientists resist social tendency allow tools (means, models) supplant search reliable knowledge (end) benchmark scientific endeavor. Science highest order, including virtually all discoveries humankind extols today, possible without but