(January 21, 2010 at 10:53 am)leo-rcc Wrote: No, I only edited my post because stfu was a bit too harsh in this case. As for using "null hypothesis" as opposed to Adrian's explanation of "Default hypothesis". It is my wording, I would use null hypothesis every single time something like this would come up. And I am not about to change that.For the sake of clarification (which I believe was the only thing FaithvsFact was after), by "null hypothesis" you do mean "default position" right?
I can understand where FaithvsFact is coming from, as I never use the phrase "null hypothesis" for anything other than statistics. If he is an engineer as he claims, it is not surprising he was confused by your wording.
It isn't so much semantics, but when someone has used a word in a context where it is not usually placed, clarification is needed.
