Should-Read: Blakeley B. McShane et al.: Abandon Statistical Significance: “The status quo is a lexicographic decision rule in which any result is first required to have a p-value that surpasses the 0.05 threshold… http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/abandon.pdf …only then is consideration—often scant—given to such factors as prior and related evidence, plausibility of mechanism, study design and data quality, … Continue reading Should-Read: Blakeley B. McShane et al.: Abandon Statistical Significance