Xkcd 1132

I told a guy that a wide variance in data essentially means that results were random then he proceeded to explain p values and I’m like “yeah I’m sure the random values values came from nature”.

Moral is p values kinda worth less than variance

It’s like 50% of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s personality too, if you need more motivation to hate it.

I noticed that Soviet textbooks were frequentist e.g. Khintchin, while modern textbook by Murphy is Bayesian. The frequentist approach makes more sense to me.