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Chapter 4 Notes

The document discusses the process of experimentation, emphasizing the importance of confirming or rejecting hypotheses through well-designed tests. It outlines the concepts of false confirmation (Type 2 Error) and false rejection (Type 1 Error), as well as the role of the null hypothesis in these processes. Additionally, it provides guidelines for designing tests to minimize the risk of errors and ensure clarity in claims being tested.

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Chapter 4 Notes

The document discusses the process of experimentation, emphasizing the importance of confirming or rejecting hypotheses through well-designed tests. It outlines the concepts of false confirmation (Type 2 Error) and false rejection (Type 1 Error), as well as the role of the null hypothesis in these processes. Additionally, it provides guidelines for designing tests to minimize the risk of errors and ensure clarity in claims being tested.

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Experimentation

Experimentation
-Hypotheses are confirmed or rejected by testing predictions made about the hypothesis

Confirmation and Rejection


-A well designed experiment will control for factors that could lead to a false confirmation or rejection of
the claim being tested
-False confirmation: could the predicted outcome be due to anything other than the claim at issue?
-If yes, the experiment cannot verify the claim
-aka False Negative, or Type 2 Error
-Fails to detect an effect that is present
-False rejection: could the predicted outcome fail to occur even if the claim at issue is correct?
-aka False Positive or Type 1 Error
-Detecting an effect that is not actually present
-Leads you
-Null hypothesis
-Refers to a general statement or default position that there is no relationship between two measure
phenomena
-Often denoted H^0
-False confirmation/false negative/type 2 error is the failure to reject a false null hypothesis
-False rejection/false positive/type 1 error is the incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis

Designing a Test
-A good test will be designed to rule out the possibility of a false confirmation or rejection
1. Can the possibility of a false rejection be ruled out?
2. Can the possibility of a false confirmation be ruled out?
3. Is the claim at issue conceptually clear?
4. Is the difference between predictive success and failure clearly specified?
5. Have controls been imposed to eliminate the influence of experimenter or experimental subject
expectations?

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