Since the dawn of time, man has wondered: what are p-values? Fast-forwarding to the present day: I’m touching on the so-called replication crisis in psychology in my intro philosophy class. Specifically, I want to bounce off something Andrew Gelman wrote: Ultimately the problem is not with p-values but with null-hypothesis significance testing, that parody of … Continue reading Colliding with Mystery – or – It is difficult to get a man to intuit p-values when his h-index depends upon his not intuiting them