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Compared with many things we believe we know, p<0.05 is still pretty weak. For instance, I've seen quite a few medical correlations that were P<0.001. I try n
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Compared with many things we believe we know, p<0.05 is still pretty weak.
For instance, I've seen quite a few medical correlations that were P<0.001.
I try now to avoid the mindset of "significant" vs "insignificant" as having a discrete black or white cutoff.
- marcosdumay 2y agop<0.05 is a ridiculous high bar for speculative research, and a ridiculous low bar for practical research. If I didn't know its rationale, it does look a lot of what a mixed committee would settle on trying to appease everyone. But yeah, it's not a good static value.