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Re:What a debate about p-values shows about science by imh on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:31AM (#15393063)
"there is a 5% chance of the data being noise" is a statement on the probability of whether the phenomenon is not real given the data: p(it's just noise | data). A p value is a statement on the probability we'd see this data given that the phenomenon isn't real: p(data | it's just noise).

Now, the exact values of a given data set are vanishingly unlikely, so we actually ask about the probability we'd say this data or even more extreme data given that we're just looking at noise. That's a typical p value.

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Re:What a debate about p-values shows about science by nils-m-holm on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:14PM (#15396269)
That's what I meant: P(data | H0). So there is a 5% probability for the data to arise by chance (being noise) given H0 is true.

The whole terminology with values being "extreme" is just unintuitive and unwieldy, IMO.

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