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It is not that P-values are now bad by definition. It's only that they are many times wrongly intepreted. Putting too much confidence in P-values only might res
by haddr 11y ago
It is not that P-values are now bad by definition. It's only that they are many times wrongly intepreted. Putting too much confidence in P-values only might result in some wrong conclusions. And this is what some meta analyses discover. Many scientists try hard only to reach the "golden" <0.05 in order to claim discovery and publish it. This is why there is so many papers that misteriously cluster around 0.05...
- tel 11y agoThere's also the systemic effect of prioritizing particular p values in that negative results are omitted leading to replication bias across the community.