A Frequent Misuse of Significance Tests

Economists sometimes interpret the failure of a significance test to disconfirm a hypothesis as evidence that this hypothesis is valid. Six examples of this are cited from recent journals. But this is a misinterpretation of what significance tests show. While in general it is correct that every failure to disconfirm a hypothesis adds to its credibility, the term "disconfirm" is defined differently for this purpose than it is in the context of significance tests

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Year of publication:	[2021]
Authors:	Mayer, Thomas
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Statistischer Test \| Statistical test \| Theorie \| Theory \| Statistische Methodenlehre \| Statistical theory

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