Statistical techniques primarily developed for the natural sciences are finding increasing application in the social sciences. At a time when there is little agreement among statisticians about the properlogical basis of statistical inference, the use of equivocal methods for the interpretation of scientific data of social relevance, and the misunderstanding of some of the basic tenets of inductive inference, may have grave social consequences.
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EDWARDS, A. Science, Statistics and Society. Nature 233, 17–19 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233017a0
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