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Both of those statements are false. Everything has a result. And the p-value is very literally a quantified measure of how interesting a result was. That's the
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
Both of those statements are false. Everything has a result. And the p-value is very literally a quantified measure of how interesting a result was. That's the only thing it purports to measure.
"Woman gives birth to fish" is interesting because it has a p-value of zero: under the null hypothesis ("no supernatural effects"), a woman can never give birth to a fish.
- bjourne 2y agoI ate cheese yesterday and a celebrity died today: P >> 0.05. There is no result and you can't say anything about whether my cheese eating causes or prevents celebrity deaths. You confuse hypothesis testing with P-values.
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- thaumasiotes 2y agoThe result is "a celebrity died today". This result is uninteresting because, according to you, celebrities die much more often than one per twenty days. I suggest reading your comments before you post them.