All researchers agree that the scientific method of experimentation and replication must be preserved. To date, null hypothesis significance testing is the best way to assure that random error is accounted for in the analysis of scientific experiments and surveys. Although the statistics community has been talking the misuse of significance testing, and some inroads have been made into statistics education, the conversation among statisticians has not reached the scientific community on a large scale.

The aim of the symposium on scientific inquiry and statistical significance is four-fold:

1. To disseminate the stance of the American Statistical Association on the appropriate use of results from null hypothesis significance testing for analysis of studies from social science, science, engineering, and humanities.

2. To offer alternatives to such testing

3. To discuss changes to publication policies that would benefit both individual scientists and science writ large.

4. To discuss methods of educating current and future scientists in appropriate methods for gathering and analyzing data.

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