P-values are widely used in the social sciences, but often misunderstood: and that’s a problem.

Policy and Internet Blog on 7 March 2016 at 18:53PM P-values are widely used in the social sciences, especially ‘big data’ studies, to calculate statistical significance. Yet they are widely criticized for being easily hacked, and for not telling us what we want to know. Many have argued that, as a result, research is wrong far more often than we realize. In their recent [...]