ABSTRACT
Null hypothesis significance testing (NHSrl) as applied by most researchers and journal editors can provide a very useful form of social control over researchers' understandable tendency to "read too much" into their data, that is, to waste their
lTo avoid the ugly "NHST"ing abbreviation, I use "NHST" to refer either to "nulI hypothesis significance testing" or to "nulI hypothesis significance tests," depending on context.
