A Review of Hypothesis Testing Revisited: Rejoinder to Thompson, Knapp, and Levin.

Before we respond to the critiques of our colleagues, we would like to comment that discourse such as that exemplified in this journal issue is the type of debate that is necessary to lead us to more coherent methods of analyzing data. As Mark Twain said, “Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” The situation we have described (Nix & Barnette,1998) is one that has the potential to mislead those not well versed in statistical methods, the enlightened practitioners who look to educational research for guidance in the most difficult and, in our opinion, the most important of professions, the education of fertile young minds.

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