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by nonbel 3138 days ago
>"You cannot prove the null hypothesis; you can only disprove it."

Sure, but thats why the null hypothesis should be predicted by your theory. Then you are checking your theory. Most people could care less about whether there is a miniscule difference between groups or not.

>"The p-value is the probability that the null hypothesis is true."

No, as pointed out by jostylr this is wrong.