The reliability and reproducibility of science are under scrutiny. However, a major cause of this lack of repeatability is not being considered: the wide sample-to-sample variability in the P value.

One should try everything in life except incest, folk dancing and calculating a P-value. It is also worth considering the so-called rare events that occur when sufficient numbers of experiments are ...

When testing new treatments, drugmakers must show that their formulation bears out better results than a placebo in clinical trials. In fact, the new drug must outperform the placebo by a ...

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