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Lumifer comments on Against NHST - Less Wrong Discussion

57 Post author: gwern 21 December 2012 04:45AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 25 November 2015 11:53:36PM 2 points [-]

Aren't these basically the same?

Not at all. To quote Andrew Gelman,

The p-value is a strange nonlinear transformation of data that is only interpretable under the null hypothesis. Once you abandon the null (as we do when we observe something with a very low p-value), the p-value itself becomes irrelevant.

Also see more of Gelman on the same topic.