Prof. Deborah Mayo, Emerita Department of Philosophy Virginia Tech Prof. David Hand Department of Mathematics Statistics Imperial College London Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice?  (Synthese) [pdf of full paper.] Abstract: While the common procedure of statistical significance testing and its accompanying concept of p-values have long been surrounded … Continue reading D. Mayo & D. Hand: “Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice?”