Re:Scientists rise up against statistical significance
by darkpuma on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @08:36PM
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> "Well, that's why the article doesn't propose simply ditching P-values, it proposes reporting confidence intervals instead."
You could possibly enforce that when publishing in journals, but there is no way in hell "science journalism" would follow suite, so the general public would still be just as hopelessly mislead, if not moreso if we account for the general statistical incompetence of the typical science journalist.
You could possibly enforce that when publishing in journals, but there is no way in hell "science journalism" would follow suite, so the general public would still be just as hopelessly mislead, if not moreso if we account for the general statistical incompetence of the typical science journalist.