Statisticians’ Call To Arms: Reject Significance And Embrace Uncertainty!

… Scientists and statisticians are putting forth a bold idea: Ban the very concept of “statistical significance.”

We hear that phrase all the time in relation to scientific studies. Critics, who are numerous, say that declaring a result to be statistically significant or not essentially forces complicated questions to be answered as true or false.

“The world is much more uncertain than that,” says Nicole Lazar, a professor of statistics at the University of Georgia. She is involved in the latest push to ban the use of the term “statistical significance.” CONT.

Richard Harris, NPR News