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Issues of Power: Rejoinder.

Authors :
Meyer, Donald L.
Source :
American Educational Research Journal; Spring1974, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p193-194, 2p
Publication Year :
1974

Abstract

The article presents additional information to an earlier article "Issues of Power: Clarification," in the same journal as a rejoinder under the section "Debate." The main article is "Statistical Tests and Surveys of Power: A Critique." also published in the same journal. The author feels sorry that Professor J.K. Brewer of Florida State University, Florida, chose not to comment on the points raised in his paper regarding surveys of power and decision theoretic methods, as he feels these issues deserve discussion. Relative to Brewer's clarification, he was misled because he thought these sentences had some informational content. The statement in point 3 of the article "Issues of Power: Clarification," is grammatically clumsy because of the change in tense. However, the phrase, "Given that," is standard in conditional probability problems and always refers to a probability calculated in a sub-space. The author hopes the reader will not see this as mere nit-picking since the statements bear directly on the point that one might do a survey of sample sizes, but a survey of power is meaningless.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00028312
Volume :
11
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
American Educational Research Journal
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
19799070
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312011002193