You’re right, I added a paragraph explaining why I do this:
P-values aren’t very useful in getting close to the truth, but they’re everywhere, they’re easy to work with and they’re moderately useful for getting away from bullshit. Since the latter is our goal in this essay we’ll stick with looking at p-values for now.
Since you see p-values reported all the time and they’re easy to calculate (because they’re uniformly distributed), there’s value in extracting whatever useful evidence there is in p-values.
There’s some… tension between this correct statement and the rest of your blog post :-/
You’re right, I added a paragraph explaining why I do this:
Since you see p-values reported all the time and they’re easy to calculate (because they’re uniformly distributed), there’s value in extracting whatever useful evidence there is in p-values.