The scientific method and p‐values: response to Mayo (2022).

Wasserstein and Lazar (2016) start with a constructive discussion about the uses and abuses of I p i -values before moving against them. Keywords: data analysis; p-value; statistical inference EN data analysis p-value statistical inference 1 2 2 10/04/22 20221001 NES 221001 There is a need for articles, such as the recent I Conservation Biology i editorial by Mayo (2022), elaborating on and contextualizing the American Statistical Association President's Task Force statement on statistical significance (Benjamini et al., 2021). For such studies, formal statistical methods, such as I p i -values, may not be required, though I p i -values may be still useful. [Extracted from the article]

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