Drowning in insignificance

Win-Vector Blog 2014-02-27

Summary:

Some researchers (in both science and marketing) abuse a slavish view of p-values to try and falsely claim credibility. The incantation is: “we achieved p = x (with x ≤ 0.05) so you should trust our work.” This might be true if the published result had been performed as a single project (and not as […]

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Tags:

data science opinion rants statistics a/b testing bayesian correctness experiments frequentist p-values significance

Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

02/27/2014, 08:40

Date published:

02/26/2014, 17:51