jongr

5255 pts ยท June 2, 2015


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when you stop dosing you get to experience a period of being even worse off than you were when you started. That much is chemistry. 5

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This is not the case. Chemically you become dependent and eventually end up exactly where you were chemically before dosing started. Then, 4

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not-so-long-term. The drugs are very dangerous and many doctors prescribe them as if it's healthy to have a long term drug prescription 3

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dependence. You have to use the medication to get yourself into positive thinking habits or they will make you worse off in the 2

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They are trying to point out an important and oft-overlooked aspect of psychopharmacology: the drugs help exactly as much as they create 1

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so says my professor: there is an important logical distinction between testing H0=true and testing H0=false, something to do with method 4

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H0=false is what is tested. 3

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assume that Ha is true unless you've proven that H0 is not true. H0=true is an assumption that is never statistically tested. 2

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You are hilariously wrong friend, I was JUST in a research statistics course 3 weeks ago. H0 is not assumed to be true, you just can't 1

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given your sample. It's a test of "what chance would I have gotten my sample if H0 was true" not "is H0 true".

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No, you never assume H0 is true because you aren't testing the truthfulness of H0, you're testing the probability that H0 would be true 1

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and it is criminal to say no weiners in the ladies room!

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You didn't miss too much, vanilla was the wild wild west, BC was meh and then WotLK was about as fun as vanilla, but without the chaos.

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We're arguing the same point with one caveat: You never assume H0 is true, you either know it's false or you know it maybe isn't false.

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2 "H0 is true". Just because we cannot determine that H0 is false does not mean that we CAN determine it is true.

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It is not semantic nonsense, there is a very significant logical difference between "We are unable to prove H0 false" and 2

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3 aka when Ha is presumed true.

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2 conclusive in the case of rejection.

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That may be true but you never "accept" a null hypothesis, you merely fail to reject it. Therefore Null hypothesis testing is only 1

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Yes, that is null hypothesis testing, which has very specific applications that do not include debating speculation.

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On what grounds should I assume one answer when there's no definitive evidence either way?

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though many things can certainly help, like having access to the parameters of your tested population

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Your semantics are more correct than mine but the original problem still exists; H0 testing is not usually conclusive enough by itself

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2 you kinda run into a similar problem.

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H0 test results are "rejected" (alt hyp is true), or "not rejected" which doesn't mean H0 is true, just that we aren't sure it's false so 2

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3 any of the hypotheses.

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2 evidenced as existent or nonexistent is foolish. Occams razor is for when you have evidence of multiple hypotheses, not no evidence for 2

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Assumptions should only be made when required to come to a conclusion. Using occam's razor as an argument against something that is neither1

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Do you have evidence that no such sentience exists?

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