id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_fn5gab6zd5b2zifd7qejz7k6r4 Deborah G. Mayo Philosophical Scrutiny of Evidence of Risks: From Bioethics to Bioevidence 2006 14 .pdf application/pdf 6370 401 56 Risk assessment controversies in biology and other sciences often revolve around disagreements regarding the nature, interpretation, and justification of methods and models used to learn from incomplete and uncertain data. Because there is latitude for choice among possible inference options, and each choice influences the chance of obtaining evidence for a given risk (or benefit), much type II error: the data are not taken as evidence of a risk (or benefit), type II error: the data are not taken as evidence of a risk (or benefit), risk of concern is a policy question, whether a statistically significant/ case, options may be based on 'unthinking conventions' (e.g., the .05 cutoff for statistical significance), on philosophical principles of evidence, or A familiar test rule is: Reject H0 and infer that data x0 provide evidence When we speak of a test 'detecting a risk', we mean 'it reports a statistically significant result' (at the chosen significance level a); with an ./cache/work_fn5gab6zd5b2zifd7qejz7k6r4.pdf ./txt/work_fn5gab6zd5b2zifd7qejz7k6r4.txt