That depends heavily on what “the method” picks out. If you mean that the machinery of a null hypothesis significance test against a fixed-for-all-time significance level of 0.05, then I agree, the method doesn’t promote good practice. But if we’re talking about frequentism, then identifying the method with null hypothesis significance testing looks like attacking a straw man.
I know a bunch of scientists who learned a ton of canned tricks and take the (frequentist) statisticians’ word on how likely associations are… and the statisticians never bothered to ask how a priori likely these associations were.
If this is a straw man, it is one that has regrettably been instantiated over and over again in real life.
That depends heavily on what “the method” picks out. If you mean that the machinery of a null hypothesis significance test against a fixed-for-all-time significance level of 0.05, then I agree, the method doesn’t promote good practice. But if we’re talking about frequentism, then identifying the method with null hypothesis significance testing looks like attacking a straw man.
I know a bunch of scientists who learned a ton of canned tricks and take the (frequentist) statisticians’ word on how likely associations are… and the statisticians never bothered to ask how a priori likely these associations were.
If this is a straw man, it is one that has regrettably been instantiated over and over again in real life.