ND Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’ (www.sciencenews.org)
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Summary ~lite
Statisticians consider abandoning p-values as standard measure.
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2026-03-22 01:34 eval_success PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.440 (3 dims) - -
2026-03-22 01:34 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.44 (Moderate positive)
2026-03-22 01:29 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (-0.08) - -
2026-03-22 01:29 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.08 (Neutral)
reasoning
The article discusses the potential abandonment of the standard measure of significance in science, known as p-values, f
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