ABSTRACT
As I have gotten immersed in statistics literature while writing this book, I have discovered that many people who are knowledgeable about statistics are dismayed by the almost fetishistic and uncomprehending use of significance tests by most applied researchers. Their dismay is easy to understand when applied researchers understand two things:
1 The question of whether a researcher can reject the null hypothesis (H0) depends mostly upon the size of the sample being tested.
