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I do like this cartoon; it's a very nice representation of the problem with the viewpoint.

The main issue is that it make frequentist humans look like idiots. They're not.

Simply oftentimes lead astray -- as this example illustrates.

In particular, the epistemological fact that people misuse p-values must be exposed. Just because it is unlikely something happened by chance, in one way, in your model, does not prove your hypothesis correct.



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