(December 2, 2018 at 6:18 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 2, 2018 at 6:07 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: The starting point is always "null" or "no relationship", and then we try to determine the probability of relationship by controlling things that would skew those results, that way we are only testing the specific relationship in the research between two or more subjects. If we find nothing, we conclude the null was correct, but we also give a numerical value on the probability that "null" was the right result.
Just a minor point, no, we do not conclude that the null is correct, only that the null is not necessarily incorrect. Those are not the same thing, though they are often confused.
You're right. Technically we would say "accept the null", then we provide a value to our findings. By "accepting" were just saying that we haven't established a correlation between the subjects.
Please excuse me with this. I try to type this kind of thing out correctly, but sometimes I get distracted or have a temporary lapse in what I should be saying.
