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If you eliminate p-value then you can't have authors that search for anything with p<0.05 and then publish, there will simply have to be some other justification. If p-value is gone it will have to be replaced with something and that something, the supposition is, will result in better science.

Writing a paper, you need to support your conclusion, removing p-value doesn't remove that need for support, it will just find something different, hopefully better.



This could make it worse. Instead of hacking for 5%, maybe they’ll hack for the lowest possible.


To be clear I mean rejecting p-values all together (or at least requiring additional evidence) not the specific <0.05 requirement.


For some context in the article they do not call for abolishing p-values but for a stop of the "significant" false dichotomy. An example would be to explain the consequences of all the values in the confidence interval or even to simply reformulate a sentence from "no significant effect was found" to "our data neither prove or disprove the presence of a significant effect"


Described pretty accurately by this XKCD

https://xkcd.com/882/


The proposal isn't about eliminating p.




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