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1. What this tells me is that people using p-values didn't learn what they are

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 12:28 PM

Mar 2015

Nothing in that article should be news to anybody who actually took an undergraduate stats class, and paid attention.

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In the real world, as the article points out, bananas Mar 2015 #3

Oh man, that is a perfect way to pollute your p-values phantom power Mar 2015 #6

"The fickle P value generates irreproducible results" bananas Mar 2015 #4

Scientists unknowingly tweak experiments Jim__ Mar 2015 #7

Hmmm...statistical significance is a very old debate. Sancho Mar 2015 #8