Video: Statistical trends: Avoid overemphasizing p values

Dr Jacob Wickham highlights in this video the problem of overemphasizing p-values in statistical analysis. He presents the findings of a study that analyzed 800 articles across five journals, revealing that more than half of the articles mistakenly assumed non-significance. He emphasizes the importance of not solely relying on significance or non-significance alone when interpreting statistical findings.

This video is a snippet from a webinar Editage conducted on the topic “Describing and understanding data distributions” on February 28. Dr Jacob Wickham, Managing Editor of the journal Integrative Zoology and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Zoology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, provided expert insights on the importance of data distribution in statistical analysis. 

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