Re:Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values
by peatmoss on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @11:20AM
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I can also say that, when I was starting stats, the term p-value seemed to hint tantalizingly at "probability." I cannot be the only person seduced into erroneously thinking that a p-value had something to do with the probability that something could be untrue.
The problem is that the concept sounds more important than it is if you don't understand it. This is a bad failure state.
The issue is that the probability of some phenomena happening by chance is mostly orthogonal to the probability of that phenomena being true or whatever, but this seems outside the ability of most people to grasp.