Here’s a good idea for the next presidential candidate debate: They can insult each other about their ignorance of statistics. Actually, it’s a pertinent topic for political office seekers, as public ...

Ninety years ago, Ronald Fisher changed science forever. With his book, Statistical Methods for Researchers, the eminent English statistician popularized P values for measuring statistical ...

The pursuit of science is designed to search for significance in a maze of data. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. To support or refute a hypothesis, the goal is to establish statistical ...

For decades, scientists have been using the probability value, commonly known as p-value, to test the significance of their findings. The p-value falls from 0 to 1, and the lower the number, the ...

'Statistical significance' is one of the most widely misunderstood phrases in science, according to a 2013 Scientific American article. It's a controversial topic. Probability values (p-values) have ...