Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice?

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    This has led many to blame the statistical significance tests themselves, and some view the use of p-value thresholds as sufficiently damaging to scientific practice as to warrant being abandoned. Even where critics of statistical significance tests are mainly objecting to misuses and misinterpretations, recommended fixes often grow out of controversial underlying conceptions about the nature and role of statistics in science. To show that underlying many criticisms of statistical significance tests, and especially proposed alternatives, are often controversial philosophical presuppositions about statistical evidence and inference; P-values and statistical significance Statistical significance . . .

     

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