>"non-statistics researchers incorrectly calculating statistical values" Actually another point is that this is not the issue. The calculations are fine, they

>"non-statistics researchers incorrectly calculating statistical values" Actually another point is that this is not the issue. The calculations are fine, they are just calculating something other than they think: p(Data | Hypothesis) when they want p(Hypothesis | Data). That is very similar to what the OP claimed about calculating a model that assumes a sphere to describe a disc (no idea if they are correct on that).