creators_name: Chow, Siu L. type: journalp datestamp: 1999-08-06 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:18 metadata_visibility: show title: Significance Tests and Deduction: Reply to Folger (1989) ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy subjects: phil-sci full_text_status: public keywords: Theory corroborationStatistical hypothesis testingModustollensHypothetico-deductiveSignificance tests abstract: Shows that agreeing with Folger's (1989) methodological observations does not mean that it is incorrect to use significance tests. This contention is based on the dynamics of theory corroboration, with reference to which the following distinctions are illustrated, namely, the distinctions between (a) statistical hypothesis testing, theory corroboration, and syllogistic argument, (b) a responsible experimenter and a cynical experimenter, (c) logical validity and methodological correctness, and (d) warranted assertability and truth. date: 1989 date_type: published publication: Psychological Bulletin volume: 106 number: 1 pagerange: 161-165 refereed: TRUE citation: Chow, Siu L. (1989) Significance Tests and Deduction: Reply to Folger (1989). [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/823/1/REFOLG.htm