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by sideshowb on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:11AM
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Is the wikipedia page on statistical power plain wrong then?
"The power of a binary hypothesis test is the probability that the test correctly rejects the null hypothesis (H0) when a specific alternative hypothesis (H1) is true. The statistical power ranges from 0 to 1, and as statistical power increases, the probability of making a type 2 error decreases. For a type 2 error probability of β, the corresponding statistical power is 1-β. "
So according to that, if I always reject H0 whether rightly or wrongly, that means β=0 and power=1.
It is widely misunderstood though, so often people try to use an observed result to justify low power.
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/08/17/just-google-despite-limit...