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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 170
out to be significant; the more tests you do, the higher the number that give misleading
information.
The second is that these statistical tests are probably predicated on the
assumption that each sample is independent of every other sample. Recall what
was said above on this topic. Again, it should make you wary of accepting low
significance levels when dealing with linguistic data collected in the way that
most linguists go about collecting data.
Reference
Huff, Darrell (1954). How to Lie with Statistics. London: Gollancz.