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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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