
S4E15 Flipping Our Hypotheses to Test Equivalence
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When We Reject a Null Hypothesis
If you get a P value less than alpha, which we will say is 05, I would say it is unlikely that you would have observed a difference between your sample means this large or larger if there was truly no difference in the population. And so I reject that null or sometimes we say nil hypothesis, right? Because there's nothing going on in favor of saying there is something going on. Well, that's the cowardly part. We've talked about this before, which is either the means are precisely equal or they're not. Yeah. So then let me flip this on you: What words do you use when you don't want to accept such a conclusion? That's a good one
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