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by neaden 2385 days ago
Your mistake here is in saying that because the p-value is 1/32 you reject the null hypothesis. You just decided to do that with utterly no justification. There is a problem with people unthinkingly deciding that a p-value of .05 is reasonable is most situations but that is not actually an issue with frequentist statistics anymore then people starting out with bizarre priors would be a problem with Bayesian statistics.
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"that is not actually an issue with frequentist statistics"

To me that sounds exactly like when people say everything that goes wrong with cryptocurrency in practice is not a problem with the concepts.