Attempts at providing helpful explanations of statistics must avoid instilling misleading or harmful notions: ‘Statistical significance just tells us whether or not something definitely does or definitely doesn’t cause cancer’

Getting across (scientifically) profitable notions of statistics to non-statisticians (as well as fellow statisticians) ain’t easy. Statistics is what it is, but explaining it as what it ain’t just so it is easy to understand (and thereby likely to make you more popular) should no longer be tolerated. What folks take away from easy to …