La significación estadística no es suficiente. [Statistical significance is not enough].

Resumen

En el contexto de la actividad investigadora en Ciencias del Depote, la forma actual de las Pruebas de Significación de la Hipótesis Nula (PSHN) es el método inferencial inductivo utilizado por excelencia en los informes de investigación de este ámbito. Las críticas al uso de estas pruebas son tan numerosas (Balluerka, Gomez e Hidalgo, 2005; Kline, 2004; Nickerson, 2000) que sería difícil abordarlas de manera exhaustiva en un trabajo como el presente. Estas críticas varían desde aquellas que se centran en la mala utilización de las mismas en los informes de investigación hasta aquellas que cuestionan la utilidad científica de las mismas y proponen su abandono (Anderson, Burnham y Thompson, 2000; Harlow, Mulaik y Steiger, 2013).

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