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From my limited teaching experience, renaming "p-value" to "probability of a false positive" makes it all very simple.
by omginternets 11y ago
From my limited teaching experience, renaming "p-value" to "probability of a false positive" makes it all very simple.
- nonbel 11y agoThis is a very common, but dangerously wrong, interpretation of p-values. Others in this thread have expressed the same misconception, see the paper linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10628860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10628860
- omginternets 11y agoDuly noted, thanks for the reference!