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maccardtoday at 6:51 AM1 replyview on HN

Fair play to you for answering, but that’s not what a P value is! A p value is the chance of getting a result greater than the result you actually got, _assuming you are testing a hypothesis_.

I’m also pretty sure I would fall in the camp of saying “nope don’t understand P values” as I can’t remember anything else about them.


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Ekarostoday at 7:02 AM

Same. I think it involves doing some other stuff very much properly... Like formulating whole thing... And even then you might luck out if you try enough of things...

So I admit I only know that P values are somewhat useful some of the time.