I think it's really, really hard to talk about p values if they don't appreciate that any sort of uncertainty that you're talking about has a specific kind of meaning. Uncertainty is a quantification of how much we don't know, or how much is coming about because of certain kinds of variability,. Right? And that's what uncertainty speaks to. So there's some value in people understanding that for sure.
Our podcast junkie co-host heard the following statement on another podcast a while back when he was out for a jog: "I actually think the word 'uncertainty' is used in English in a very different way than the word 'uncertainty' is used in statistics." He almost ran into a tree (causation is unclear: he's not known for his gross motor skills, which may have been a confounder). Not only is that quote, essentially, the theme for this episode, but the person who said it, Dr. Rebecca Goldin from George Mason University, was our guest! And we are absolutely CERTAIN that it was every bit as enlightening a discussion as it was a fun one! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.