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"""The book is applauded for its comprehensive consideration of the pros and cons of statistical hypothesis testing (and alternatives) in psychological and educational research....editors Lisa Harlow, Stanley Mulaik, and James Steiger have--with aplomb, acumen, and even evenhandedness--assembled a 'wonderful' collection of essays on the pros, cons, and others of hypothesis testing....a book that belongs on every serious researcher's shelf. And so, with a final obligatory reviewer nod of priority to Gene and Roger, two thumbs up on this one--way up!"" —Educational and Psychological Measurement ""What If There Were No Significance Tests? is a thought-provoking book and worthy of the attention of anyone who is interested in the question of whether significance testing has a proper role to play in psychological research and, if so, what it is."" —Journal of Mathematical Psychology ""...the Harlow, Mulaik, and Steiger inaugural offering... should be required reading for every serious behavioral scientist, regardless of where a given scholar falls on the continuum of views of current statistical practice. The treatment is comprehensive, conceptually rich, and contemporary. No reader could study these chapters without being both challenged and stimulated."" —Bruce Thompson Texas A&M University ""The most valuable part of the book here reviewed is its title. For teachers of statistics it offers some shock value. Teachers who jplace the logic of null hypothesis significance testing more or less on a par with scientific logic need to be awakened quite rudely; others can at least use the title to make students sit up and listen."""

The book is applauded for its comprehensive consideration of the pros and cons of statistical hypothesis testing (and alternatives) in psychological and educational research....editors Lisa Harlow, Stanley Mulaik, and James Steiger have--with aplomb, acumen, and even evenhandedness--assembled a 'wonderful' collection of essays on the pros, cons, and others of hypothesis testing....a book that belongs on every serious researcher's shelf. And so, with a final obligatory reviewer nod of priority to Gene and Roger, two thumbs up on this one--way up! -Educational and Psychological Measurement What If There Were No Significance Tests? is a thought-provoking book and worthy of the attention of anyone who is interested in the question of whether significance testing has a proper role to play in psychological research and, if so, what it is. -Journal of Mathematical Psychology ...the Harlow, Mulaik, and Steiger inaugural offering... should be required reading for every serious behavioral scientist, regardless of where a given scholar falls on the continuum of views of current statistical practice. The treatment is comprehensive, conceptually rich, and contemporary. No reader could study these chapters without being both challenged and stimulated. -Bruce Thompson Texas A&M University The most valuable part of the book here reviewed is its title. For teachers of statistics it offers some shock value. Teachers who jplace the logic of null hypothesis significance testing more or less on a par with scientific logic need to be awakened quite rudely; others can at least use the title to make students sit up and listen.

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Lisa L. Harlow, Stanley A. Mulaik, James H. Steiger

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