All Bachelors are Unmarried Men (p <  0.05)

• Published in: Quality & quantity Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 53 - 73
• Main Author: Smedslund, Geir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.02.2008; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Conceptualization; Empirical Methods; History, theory and methodology; Hypotheses; Marriage; Methodology; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Migraine; Psychological Research; Psychology; Quantitative analysis; Questionnaires; Research Subjects; Researchers; Senses; Sensory perception; Single Persons; Social research; Social Sciences; Social theory; Sociology; Tests; conceptual analysis; nonempirical; significance testing; quantitative analysis; pseudoempirical; Quantitative Analysis; Test; Empirical Research
• ISSN: 0033-5177; 1573-7845
• DOI: 10.1007/s11135-006-9036-4

This paper adds to the list of criticisms against null hypothesis significance testing (NHST). I argue that when researchers do not analyze the conceptual relations among their variables, they may fail to distinguish between logical implications and empirical relations. It does not make sense to use...