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  1. Feb 2023
    1. Ronald Fisher introduced the P value in the 1920s, he did not mean it to be a definitive test.

      the use of p-values was not originally intended to have the significance it does now, but rather as an informal way to decide whether or not evidence was significant enough to look at.

    2. It lay in the surprisingly slippery nature of the P value, which is neither as reliable nor as objective as most scientists assume. “P values are not doing their job, because they can't,

      contrary to what many have been led to believe, p-values are neither reliable or objective.

  2. May 2020