Do You Really Want to Test a Hypothesis? by Daniel Lakens

Lecture 1.2 from the free online MOOC "Improving Your Statistical Questions" https://www.coursera.org/learn/improv.... Hypothesis tests are a very specific tool, that answer a very specific question. There should be many cases in your research where a hypothesis test does not answer the question you want to know. In this lecture I discuss when you might want to, or not want to, perform a hypothesis test