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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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Social Science Journal 'Bans' Use of p-values
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(Score: 2) by NoMaster on Monday April 20 2015, @11:18PM
Oh, I dunno about that. I'm not a Frequentist by any means, but Bayesian stats & methods have plenty of equivalent issues of their own e.g. subjectiveness of priors, convergence (esp. in the typical case of chained Monte Carlo analyses), etc., etc.
Plenty of traps for people to fall into and where ignorance (superstition?) can fester & become 'accepted' wisdom - just like the common misunderstandings (e.g. p values) in Frequentist stats...
Live free or fuck off and take your naïve Libertarian fantasies with you...