[bztips]

Being a doctrinaire frequentist (ie., non-Bayesian), I nevertheless found a very interesting piece about the potential danger of (over)relying on p-values to make statistical conclusions:

Go here: http://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/...Chance_News_71

Page down a bit to the section "Bayesians and Bem's ESP Paper" which shows a great example of how a p-value could be misleading.

As an aside, there's also this link to a great little book called "What is a p-value anyway?"

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[Wrecktangle]

Being a doctrinaire frequentist (ie., non-Bayesian), I nevertheless found a very interesting piece about the potential danger of (over)relying on p-values to make statistical conclusions:

This explains a lot. The Shia and Sunni quibble over dogma also.