Abstract
The one sentence summary of a paper signed by 72 statisticians was: “We propose to change the default P-value threshold for statistical signifi - cance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005”.1 The proposal is straightforward, but it must be correctly understood, as it targets new discoveries.
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