The Insignificance of Significance Testing

A case for overcoming the p-value

Manuel Brenner
Towards Data Science
7 min readApr 14, 2020

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When is a scientific discovery really a discovery? When does a hunch about something that could be true turn into something mankind collectively holds to be true?

The world is complicated, and it is hard to come by new insights that are both meaningful and can hold their ground against rigorous testing and…

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