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Download full textThompson, Bruce – 1998
Given decades of lucid, blunt admonitions that statistical significance tests are often misused, and that the tests are somewhat limited in utility, what is needed is less repeated bashing of statistical tests, and some honest reflection regarding the etiology of researchers' denial and psychological resistance (sometimes unconscious) to improved…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Change, Denial (Psychology), Educational Research
