RCTs (and p-values) don’t seem to be popular in physics or geology.
What evidence makes you say p-values aren’t popular in physics? My passing (and mainly secondhand) understanding of cosmology is that it uses ~no RCTs but is very wedded to p-values (generally around the 5 sigma level).
You’re right. I was trying to summarize ideas from the book The Cult of Statistical Significance, but that book now looks slightly misleading, and my summary was more misleading.
There are some important ways in which physics rejected significant parts of Fisher’s ideas, but I guess I should describe them more as rejecting dogma than as rejecting p-values.
What evidence makes you say p-values aren’t popular in physics? My passing (and mainly secondhand) understanding of cosmology is that it uses ~no RCTs but is very wedded to p-values (generally around the 5 sigma level).
You’re right. I was trying to summarize ideas from the book The Cult of Statistical Significance, but that book now looks slightly misleading, and my summary was more misleading.
There are some important ways in which physics rejected significant parts of Fisher’s ideas, but I guess I should describe them more as rejecting dogma than as rejecting p-values.