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Re:Effectiveness of Mask Recommendation to Prevent SARS-CoV-... by johndcook on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:57PM (#25140820)
p = 0.38?!

Nobody would take a p-value of 0.38 as evidence. There are a lot of problems with p-values in general, but even uncritical fans of p-values would ignore any study with p = 0.38.

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Re:Effectiveness of Mask Recommendation to Prevent SARS-CoV-... by nabla9 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:55PM (#25141638)
Why research supporting the null hypothesis should be ignored?

This is negative result.

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