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ERIC Number: EJ1152510
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-May
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1570-1824
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Still against Inferential Statistics: Rejoinder to Nicholson and Ridgway
Gorard, Stephen; White, Patrick
Statistics Education Research Journal, v16 n1 p74-79 May 2017
In their response to our paper, Nicholson and Ridgway agree with the majority of what we wrote. They echo our concerns about the misuse of inferential statistics and NHST in particular. Very little of their response explicitly challenges the points we made but where it does their defence of the use of inferential techniques does not stand up to scrutiny. Their statements are either contradictory, agreement 'dressed up' as disagreement, appeals to authority, semantic slights of hand, or irrelevant to our original claims. It is not clear why such a response was needed. [For the original article, "Against Inferential Statistics: How and Why Current Statistics Teaching Gets It Wrong," see EJ1152511. For the response, "A Response to White and Gorard: against Inferential Statistics: How and Why Current Statistics Teaching Gets It Wrong," see EJ1152509.]
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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