RE: Race and IQs
June 1, 2018 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2018 at 12:02 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 1, 2018 at 11:52 am)ohreally Wrote:(June 1, 2018 at 11:47 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: The null hypothesis simply states that whatever you are seeking to demonstrate is really not there, despite what you think are the evidence for it being there.
The null hypothesis could either be 1. there is a difference between average intelligence between to groups, or 2. there is not a difference between the average intelligence between two groups.
Null hypothesis 1 is applicable if the hypothesis being tested is average intelligence is essentially the same between groups. Null hypothesis 2 is applicable if the hypothesis being tested is average intelligence is essentially different between groups.
This doesn't seem right to me. Maybe i'm totally wrong in my whole thought process. Shouldn't the null be that there is no difference in IQ between races. You either find statistically significant data and void the null or find nothing.
No, null hypothesis doesn’t intrinsically lean one way or another. It is a devil’s advocate argument, not a argument from a specific position.
