FiveThirtyEight.com asks scientists to explain the meaning of a p-value. Hilarity ensues.

FROM THE ARTICLE:   The following is from an interview with Steven Goodman, co-director of METRICS. “Even after spending his ‘entire career’ thinking about p-values, he said he could tell me the definition, ‘but I cannot tell you what it means, and almost nobody can.’”  To read more, click here.

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