In Defence of Inference
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Educational Research
- Vol. 19 (3) , 236
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0013188770190309
Abstract
It is argued that the process of inference from a set of sample data is an important part of educational research. While there may be some abuse of statistical significance testing, it does not follow that educational research should become concerned mainly with so called ‘descriptive’ statistics.Keywords
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- The Criticism of Inferential StatisticsEducational Research, 1976