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kghose on Aug 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in rec...

You can see them straining, gritting their teeth saying "Must ... not ... report ... p-value ... must ... report ... CONFIDENCE INTERVAL"

Paradigma11 on Aug 18, 2014 [–]

But with a CI you answer a different question that may or may not be a better fit to your needs.

You should not report a p-value because that is not the answer that null hypothesis significance testing gives you.

You get significant or not significant, that's it.

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