Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/13
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Eric Welch:
Re: 1. Statistical Significance and 2, Control in examination of
photography and values.
1. We will not achieve statistical significance because we will knowingly
violate the assumptions of the parametric T-Test and F-Test (statistical
models) (e.g., assumption of random sampling is violated). Statistical
significance is important here. One may violate the assumptions of a
statistical model providing one is up front and declares openly what one is
doing. Heuristic assessments and serendipidity are as imporant as scientific
methodology. Statistics is a product of natural science. My work embodies a
second science, a new science we call Value Science. The co-play and counter-
play of the two forms Unified Science and so I work in a world of three
sciences.
2. Control Group: College Students reflecting the normative value vision in
our culture.
(Note: The valuemetric procedure I use is based on a formal theory of
value whose hypotheses have been validated empirically by me over the years.
This is not a psychological test procedure, and its construction follows none
of the criteria of test construction promoted by psychology or psychiatry. It
is a new approach to values researach and goes beyond the behavioral sciences:
See: Edwards and Davis, Editors, "Forms of Value and Valuation"; University
Press of America, 1991. )
Leon
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