I would like to respond to a recent letter by Mr. Robert Lem regarding Superintendent Critchfield’s characterization of Idaho’s 2025 ISAT results. Mr. Lem writes: ...

P-values are the statistical coin of the realm in determining the significance, at least statistically, of a randomized controlled study – our gold standard. But might we apply a different metric to ...

‘P-Hacking’ Lets Scientists Massage Results. This Method Could Nix Those Statistical Loopholes In 2010, a scientist used dubious methods to claim the “sixth sense” is real.

The key difference is that we don’t know beforehand if the treatment is effective, and the p-value is about conditional probability from the experiment, not directly about whether the treatment ...