actually, p values are rather useless (i am almost prepared to say "useless") since, it would be the RARE case when the null is REALLY exactly true
thus, in 99.9999% of the cases ... we KNOW the null is not true so, setting some cutoff for rejection and then actually rejecting the null ... what has this added to our knowledge?
and, p values don't speak to the notion of the null being "approximately" true
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