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Defending the p-value

Data Skeptic

CHAPTER

The Chaotic Process in Science

Fisher: Science, by its nature, is always going to be a little bit chaotic. The balance between the false positive and the false negative is very contact specific. Different areas of science will have a different cost for the errors. So if you want to avoid type one error, then your chance of making the type to error is going to increase.

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