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“The primary product of a research inquiry is one or more measures of effect size, not p values.”
~ Jacob Cohen
“Statistical significance is the least interesting thing about the results. You should describe the results in terms of measures of magnitude – not just, does a treatment affect people, but how much does it affect them.”
~ Gene Glass
“Investigators must learn to argue for the significance of their results without reference to inferential statistics.”
~ John P. Campbell
“No economist has achieved scientific success as a result of a statistically significant coefficient.”
~ D. McCloskey and S. Ziliak