The insignificance of statistical significance (drug, doctor, medical, news)

[fibonacci]

I see tons of medical articles posted on these forums. Readers and the general public SHOULD BE INFORMED on how to handle and interpret data. Too often I see biomedical articles that try to reach some sort of conclusion due to "statistical significance" based off of some sort of statistical test to calculate a "P" value. The only problem is that statistically significant results might not mean anything biologically or medically.

Readers should inform themselves briefly (very easy read) on this topic:

Pain-Topics.org News/Research UPDATES: Pain Research: Insignificance of “Significance”


Reader beware, researchers and institutions DO have agendas, and many times publish results that are nothing but hype, when in reality their statistically significant findings are absolutely worthless.

[sibelian]

Originally Posted by fibonacci

I see tons of medical articles posted on these forums. Readers and the general public SHOULD BE INFORMED on how to handle and interpret data. Too often I see biomedical articles that try to reach some sort of conclusion due to "statistical significance" based off of some sort of statistical test to calculate a "P" value. The only problem is that statistically significant results might not mean anything biologically or medically.

Readers should inform themselves briefly (very easy read) on this topic:

Pain-Topics.org News/Research UPDATES: Pain Research: Insignificance of “Significance”


Reader beware, researchers and institutions DO have agendas, and many times publish results that are nothing but hype, when in reality their statistically significant findings are absolutely worthless.

LOL. Biggest laugh I've had all day. Think about this when your doctor tells you your cancer is in remission because the chemo drug you took was both safe and effective. If I were you, I'd stick with integer sequences.