Magic Mirror on the Wall, who has the smallest p of them all?

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• salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the p is low, drop the h0

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• yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What?

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “p value” is a number, calculated from a statistical test, that describes how likely you are to have found a particular set of observations if the null hypothesis were true.

    P values are used in hypothesis testing to help decide whether to reject the null hypothesis. The smaller the *p *value, the more likely you are to reject the null hypothesis.

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    • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Adding onto this. p < 0.05 is the somewhat arbitrary standard that many journals have for being able to publish a result at all.

      Is you do an experiment to see we whether X affects Y, and get a p = 0.05, you can say, “Either X affects Y, or it doesn’t and an unlikely fluke event occurred during this experiment that had a 1 in 20 chance.”

      Usually, this kind of thing is publishable, but we’ve decided we don’t want to read the paper if that number gets any higher than 1 in 20. No one wants to read the article on, “We failed to determine whether X has an effect on Y or not.”

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  • demonmittenhands@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Smol p.

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate statistical rigour, I want everything to be vibes-based instead

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• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That old man is a slave owner

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