[Malarkey73]

I'm honestly more tired of essays about p-values than p-values.

It's true that like all metrics if it becomes a target then it maybe abused (Goodharts Law).

However if you abolished p-values people would start hacking or misunderstanding priors or confidence limits or OR.

It's an easy dumb stat that most anyone can do in excel and most everyone recognises. The emphasis should be that it remains a quick shorthand for casual use but that more complex studies have more sophisticated models and probabilistic reasoning.

But the emphasis on the p-values is bizarre. As best illustrated by JT Leek the pipeline of data research has multiple points of failure that may lead to false findings or irreproducible research. But we talk very little about them whilst essays about p-values come out every week...

https://www.nature.com/news/statistics-p-values-are-just-the...