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The journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology announced in a February editorial that researchers who submit studies for publication would not be allowed to use common statistical methods, including p-values. While p-values are routinely misused in scientific literature, many researchers who understand its proper role are upset about the ban. Biostatistician Steven Goodman said, "This might be a case in which the cure is worse than the disease. The goal should be the intelligent use of statistics. If the journal is going to take away a tool, however misused, they need to substitute it with something more meaningful."
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @05:23PM
With tweaking you can make p values say whatever you want to say. That is the problem. Any second-year stats or math major that has fun with their work has done it.