The pursuit of science is designed to search for significance in a maze of data. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. To support or refute a hypothesis, the goal is to establish statistical ...

Here’s a good idea for the next presidential candidate debate: They can insult each other about their ignorance of statistics. Actually, it’s a pertinent topic for political office seekers, as public ...

Senior Lecturer in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, University of Roehampton How should scientists interpret their data? Emerging from their labs after days, weeks, months, even years spent ...

For researchers there's a lot that turns on the p value, the number used to determine whether a result is statistically significant. The current consensus is that if p is less than .05, a study has ...

'Statistical significance' is one of the most widely misunderstood phrases in science, according to a 2013 Scientific American article. It's a controversial topic. Probability values (p-values) have ...

How many ostensibly "positive" studies are wrong? In this deep-dive analysis, MedPage Today clinical reviewer F. Perry Wilson, MD, explains that the number may be much higher than you think. Some ...