PSYC 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Random Assignment, Leo Kanner, False Positives And False Negatives
29 Apr 2016
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If your data supports your null hypothesis, you fail to reject your null hypothesis; that means you accept your research hypothesis. If you reject the null and it"s true, you"re making a false positive error. You should reject the null and it is false - correct outcome. If you fail to reject the null hypothesis and it is true - correct outcome (true negative) If you fail to reject and it"s false, you"re making a false negative error (see table) Assignment due friday: article on clew: 1 and 2; sections a-d, read the intro, you"ll find the answers, if the answer isn"t there, the answer isn"t there; don"t make something up. Reichenbach described two stages of science, discovery and justification, and put them into contexts; they are a cycle, going from discovery to justification and, finding need for more research, back to discovery.
