“…Bayarri, Benjamin, Berger, and Sellke (2016) pointed out that NHST has been 'overly relied on' by the scientific community, and Cumming (2014) stressed the 'need to shift from reliance on NHST to estimation and other preferred techniques'. Moreover, to replace the NHST framework, several researchers and practitioners (e.g., Berger, Boukai, & Wang, 1997;Deng, 2015;Deng, Lu, & Chen 2016;Johnson, 2013b;Kass & Raftery, 1995;Kruschke, 2013;Rouder, Speckman, Sun, Morey, & Iverson, 2009) have proposed several alternative frameworks, most of which are Bayesian in nature. Among the advocates, Gigerenzer and Swijtink (1990) praised NHST as the 'essential backbone of scientific reasoning'.…”