“However, the uncanny p-mountains can still be seen in journal articles published in 2018. In fact, this blog post exists because somebody forwarded me the table of content of the current issue of a psychological journal, of which the first article I opened had uncanny p-values.  And this is probably no surprise given that (1) our intuitions about something as unintuitive as frequentist statistics are often wrong and (2) many researchers have been socialized in an environment in which such p-values were considered perfectly normal, if not a sign of excellent experimental skills. Such as the extraordinary ability of quickly spotting all p-values below .05 in a massive correlation matrix—a masterful art that might go extinct within a few academic generations. Or so one would hope. So let’s keep talking about it!”

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