How to find nothing

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How to find nothing

Category: Firearm Policies, Homicide, International|Journal: Journal of Public Health Policy (full text)|Author: D Hemenway|Year: 2009

Hypothesis testing can be misused and misinterpreted in various ways. Limitations in the research design, for example, can make it almost impossible to reject the null hypothesis that a policy has no effect. This article discusses two examples of such experimental designs and analyses, in which, unfortunately, the researchers touted their null results as strong evidence of no effect.

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