P-Value Worship: Is the Idol Significant?

Is the p value really so significant?

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

What is a P-value?

Results favoring one treatment over another in a randomized clinical trial can be explained only if the favored treatment really is superior or the apparent advantage enjoyed by the treatment is due solely to the working of chance. Since chance produces very small advantages often but large differences rarely, the larger the effect seen in the trial the less plausible chance assignment alone ca...

The grounds of worship

Although worship has a pivotal place in religious thought and practice, philosophers of religion have had remarkably little to say about it. In this paper we examine some of the many questions surrounding the notion of worship, focusing on the claim that human beings have obligations to worship God. We explore a number of attempts to ground our supposed duty to worship God, and argue that each ...

Bone idol

Species groups also varied significantly between regions. Crustaceans contributed 22–35 per cent of species number in Alaska, Antarctica, the Arctic, Brazil, California, the Caribbean and Humboldt regions, but only 10 per cent in the Baltic. Mollusc species were equally varied, comprising 26 per cent of species in Australia and Japan but only 5–7 per cent of the species in the Baltic, Californi...