Classification testing: A new framework for drawing qualitative conclusions from quantitative estimates
分类检验:从定量估计得出定性结论的新框架
Social scientists rely on hypothesis testing to support their research conclusions, but the standard tests are designed for testing one hypothesis rather than adjudicating between rival possibilities. We develop a new framework, "classification testing", as an alternative. Instead of selecting one hypothesis to test, a researcher conducting a classification test decides what qualitative distinctions ("classes") are most substantively relevant; the test either assigns the…