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Poetry by Briggs

It drives me nuts when people write that the result of a statistical test is ‘highly significant’ or ‘marginally significant.’ William M. Briggs writes wryly today: “Smaller p-values are usually accompanied with the claim that the results “stronger” or “more significant”. False, of course, but since everybody says so you will be in good company.”

The whole post is, as usual, worth reading.