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

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

While the common procedure of statistical significance testing and its accompanying concept of p-values have long been surrounded by controversy, renewed concern has been triggered by the replication crisis in science. Many blame statistical significance tests themselves, and some regard them as sufficiently damaging to scientific practice as to warrant …