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Re:Research Papers That Caught the Public's Attention in 2019 by yellow_lead on Monday December 30, 2019 @01:21PM (#21915460)
Then these articles saying scientists are "Against statistical significance" are misleading. It sounds like scientists are more pro statistical significance than ever, so much so that they want it to be defined and interpreted correctly.

I guess many people would benefit from taking a high school statistics class.

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Re:Research Papers That Caught the Public's Attention in 2019 by scarejunba on Monday December 30, 2019 @01:57PM (#21915750)
Well, in isolation p is problematic. For instance, without hypothesis pre-registration you have the obvious problem with negative results and publication bias.
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