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Re:Everything Is Correlated by nonbel on Thursday May 02, 2019 @11:13AM (#19808710)
> "It is true that, as Fisher points out, with enough samples you are almost guaranteed to reject the null hypothesis. "

Where does Fisher point this out?

> "That's why we tell students to consider both p values (which you could think of as a form of quality control on the dataset)"

How is this "quality control"? It just tells you whether your sample size was large enough to pass an arbitrary threshold...

Re:Everything Is Correlated by gwern on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:13PM (#19810810)
> Where does Fisher point this out?

Probably in the Fisher excerpt.

Re:Everything Is Correlated by nonbel on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:25PM (#19812450)
I looked but did not see it.