Timeline for What does "Scientists rise up against statistical significance" mean? (Comment in Nature)
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| Mar 21, 2019 at 18:10 | comment | added | R.M. | While this effect is something that shouldn't be discounted, it is far from being a significant point of the referenced article. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 17:54 | comment | added | Cliff AB | (-1) P-values don't show you whether a hypothesis is probably true or false. You need a prior distribution for that. See this xkcd, for example. The problematic hand-waving that leads to this confusion is that if we have similar priors for a large number of hypothesis, then the p-value will be proportional to probability it is true or false. But before seeing any data, some hypothesis are much more probable than others! | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 14:17 | history | edited | whuber♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2019 at 8:34 | history | answered | digitig | CC BY-SA 4.0 |