The increasing concern about the role of p values in science has gone from a murmur to a loudly expressed concern. Is this just an insider's argument or is it a matter we should take seriously?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A blue-ribbon committee of the American Statistical Association spent a year arguing ...

For researchers there's a lot that turns on the p value, the number used to determine whether a result is statistically significant. The current consensus is that if p is less than .05, a study has ...

Senior Lecturer in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, University of Roehampton How should scientists interpret their data? Emerging from their labs after days, weeks, months, even years spent ...