NatureIn March, three statisticians and more than 800 signatories argued for scientists to abandon the entire concept of statistical significance. “We are not calling for a ban on P values,” wrote the researchers. It’s just time to stop bucketing results into ‘statistically significant’ and ‘statistically non-significant’ because of the powerful sway such dichotomies hold on the human mind. “We must learn to embrace uncertainty,” they argue.
Nature | 11 min read (from March)
Statistician Blake McShane tells the Nature Podcast why he co-authored a call to abandon statistical significance.
