"My thesis in a nutshell: "There is no convincing reason to assume that explicitly formalized mathematical rules and t…"

"Because physical theories typically predict numerical values, an improvement in experimental precision reduces the to…"

"a fairly widespread tendency to report experimental findings with a liberal use of ad hoc explanations for those that…"

"Owing to the abusive reliance upon significance testing—rather than point or interval estimation, curve shape, or ord…"

"the null hypothesis in the life sciences is almost always false—if taken literally— in designs that involve any sort …"

"Most so-called “theories” in the soft areas of psychology (clinical, counseling, social, personality, community, and …"

"It is simply a sad fact that in soft psychology theories rise and decline, come and go, more as a function of baffled…"

"In the developed sciences, theories tend either to become widely accepted and built into the larger edifice of well-t…"

"As is well-known (and not disputed by Popper), when we spell out in detail the logical structure of what purports to …"

"Isn’t the social scientist’s use of the null hypothesis simply the application of Popperian (or Bayesian) thinking in…"