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I ate cheese yesterday and a celebrity died today: P >> 0.05. There is no result and you can't say anything about whether my cheese eating causes or prevents celebrity deaths. You confuse hypothesis testing with P-values.



The result is "a celebrity died today". This result is uninteresting because, according to you, celebrities die much more often than one per twenty days.

I suggest reading your comments before you post them.




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