Kevin comments on Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kevin 25 February 2010 02:18:42PM *  1 point [-]

I'd love to see a top-level post where someone suggests the best and/or most realistic way for scientists to do their statistics. I'm actually rather ignorant with regards to probability theory. I got a D in second semester frequentist statistics (hard teacher + I didn't go to class or try very hard on the homework) which is indicative of how little I learned in that class. I did better in my applied statistics classes.

When is it good for scientists to do null hypothesis testing?