Re: Who "invented" the null hypthesis?

Old Mac User wrote:
Thanks for your link to the Johnson paper "The Insignificance of
Statistical Significance".
It's excellent. I've not used the expressions "null hypothesis" or
"alternative hypothesis"
or even "statistical significance" since about 1963. I teach stat
courses for many companies
and other organizations but I march to a different drummer. Now... if
we can get the word
out to textbook publishers (ha ha) and to academics....


Here are a couple of interesting usenet posts on the hypothesis testing
debate by one of those academics. ;-)

www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir/notes/mcleanht.html

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