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by riotman 2479 days ago
"More than 800 statisticians and scientists are calling for an end to judging studies by statistical significance in a March 20 comment published in Nature."

While their sources are supporting this statement, I'm getting mixed signals.

https://www.nature.com/magazine-assets/d41586-019-00857-9/da...

This is their primary source, of the statisticians calling to retire statistical significance. However, their primary reasoning is because statistics is misused to make erroneous conclusions. It seems like there is a lack of understanding about the philosophy and mathematics behind statistics that's the problem by its practitioners, not statistics itself.