I am definitely of the same sentiment as these authors, especially when it comes to the 'proofs' of non-hypotheses (like: there's no such thing as learning styles) to which we have been subjected over the years. Here's what the authors say: "We're frankly sick of seeing such nonsensical 'proofs of the null' and claims of non-association in presentations, research articles, reviews and instructional materials." Underlying this is a reaction against the idea of a statistical 'proof' of an all-or-nothing statement. "Inferences should be scientific, and that goes far beyond the merely statistical... eradicating categorization will help to halt overconfident claims, unwarranted declarations of 'no difference' and absurd statements about 'replication failure' when the results from the original and replication studies are highly compatible."
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