{"id":656,"date":"2011-06-11T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T07:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2011-06-11T03:03:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T07:03:52","slug":"great-new-tutorial-on-hypothesis-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/great-new-tutorial-on-hypothesis-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Great new tutorial on Hypothesis Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J David Eisenberg has written a great new tutorial on hypothesis testing and here is a guest post from him for the SOFA blog. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p>I teach a psychology research methods course at a local community college. Every semester, I see the students&#8217; confusion about hypothesis testing and significance levels. Even at the end of the semester, there are always a few students who think that a statistical result with a probability of .001 must *not* be significant, because the number is so small.<\/p>\n<p>I do explain the concept during one lecture, but that just doesn&#8217;t do the trick. I could write a web page with the explanation, but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d get a TL; DR [1] from the students. So, I decided to make the explanation in the form of a visual novel [2] (VN). I used the Ren&#8217;py [3] visual novel engine to create the script, and it worked fine. The problem is, you need to download a fairly large file in order to display the VN; again, something that students would probably not be eager to do. The solution, which Grant [Developer of SOFA Statistics] suggested, was to make it all web-based. After some failed experiments with canvas and SVG, I was able to achieve the effects I wanted with HTML, CSS,and JavaScript. The result is at <a href=\"http:\/\/evc-cit.info\/psych018\/hyptest\/\">http:\/\/evc-cit.info\/psych018\/hyptest\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tutorial_on_hypothesis_testing.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tutorial_on_hypothesis_testing.gif\" alt=\"Tutorial on hypothesis testing\" title=\"Tutorial on hypothesis testing\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/TLDR\">http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/TLDR<\/a><br \/>\n[2] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visual_novel\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visual_novel<\/a><br \/>\n[3] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renpy.org\/\">http:\/\/www.renpy.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J David Eisenberg has written a great new tutorial on hypothesis testing and here is a guest post from him for the SOFA blog. Enjoy: I teach a psychology research methods course at a local community college. Every semester, I see the students&#8217; confusion about hypothesis testing and significance levels. Even at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}