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In my experience, people in science who are not statisticians have not completely understood the p value. Typically people are clueless on p-Values and the statistical power and how they relate.

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This is scarily true. When my lab (bioinformatics) would work/collaborate with research biologists and their labs, the research biologists lack of statistics would become very clear. Especially when we did data mining on their qpcr experiments, we constantly have to explain things like bonferroni corrections.

Edit: This is just my experience at one university with 6-7 biological research labs. I regret using the generalization, apologies.

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