{"id":18912,"date":"2023-03-09T10:54:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T10:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/video\/statistical-trends-avoid-overemphasizing-p-values\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:28:41","slug":"statistical-trends-avoid-overemphasizing-p-values","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/statistical-trends-avoid-overemphasizing-p-values","title":{"rendered":"Statistical trends: Avoid overemphasizing p values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Dr Jacob Wickham highlights in this video the problem of overemphasizing p-values in statistical analysis. He presents the findings of a study that analyzed 800 articles across five journals, revealing that more than half of the articles mistakenly assumed non-significance. He emphasizes the importance of not solely relying on significance or non-significance alone when interpreting statistical findings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\">This video is a snippet from a webinar Editage conducted on the topic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/understanding-and-describing-data-distributions\">Describing and understanding data distributions<\/a>\u201d<b>\u00a0<\/b>on February 28. 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