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Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance by mar77i on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @07:36PM (#19448051)
If anything, getting rid of some term because we currently find it insufficient to convey what we mean by it will, in all likelyhood, open the race for far more confusing, rosy and well-meaning, yet more meaningless nomenclature.

By that measure, I find this entire idea rather idiotic.

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Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance by antidesitter on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:47AM (#19449511)
> getting rid of some term because we currently find it insufficient to convey what we mean by it will, in all likelyhood, open the race for far... more meaningless nomenclature

You have given no reason to believe this.

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Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance by mateo1 on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:54AM (#19460623)
There's every reason to believe this. The article makes it very clear that the problem is the need by journals, funding agencies and researchers to have a boilerplate value so they can categorize the results as "true" or "false". You can change the value or the phrasing, but without solving the problem of "laziness" you won't fix anything.
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