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I have the same problem with Bayes factors, for example this:
and this:
(which I copied from Wikipedia, except that, unlike you-know-who, I didn’t change the n’s to d’s and remove the superscripting).
Either way, I don’t buy the numbers, and I certainly don’t buy the words that go with them.
I do admit, though, to using the phrase “statistically significant.” It doesn’t mean so much, but, within statistics, everyone knows what it means, so it’s convenient jargon.
P.S. Kruschke had a similar reaction.
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