Confusing P-values with Clinical Impact: The Significance Fallacy

Significance does not imply importance — but you need it to judge quality

Eric J. Daza, DrPH, MPS
Towards Data Science
10 min readMay 2, 2020

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See the Appendix at rpubs.com/ericjdaza/607888 for a proof sketch that significance does not imply importance.

Disclaimer: This post is not an argument for or against the recent remdesivir findings. Rather, it’s meant to help you better distinguish the importance of clinical findings from the quality of the evidence for or against those…

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