p-value

They did not search high and low for apparent correlations with high statistical significance (low p-value), and they demonstrated a dose-response relationship (I thought, though, that a graph of chocolate consumption versus depression score would have been more useful than merely dividing the depression scores into 2 categories).

Chocolate linked to depression (or vice versa) - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Another issue to note about epidemiologists–they can make almost any association have a significant p-value.

Meat and mortality | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

In other words, “p-value” becomes a surrogate for sample size.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Sotomayor, Gates and Race”: 2009

Reporting only whether the result is “significant” or not does not communicate as much information as reporting the actual p-value.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginity Among Unmarried Heterosexual 25-to-45-Year-Old Americans 2009

It would be good to see a formal test for statistical significance, including a p-value.

The Smarties Project « knitnut.net 2009

If the p-value is .50, that means there was a 50% chance it is random (spending does not impact wins).

Daniel Adler: Moneyball: Dead, Alive, or on Life Support? 2009

BTW: I am a scientist and we always are very careful never to use any variation of the adverb "significantly" unless this is borne out by something called a p-value.

Poll: Dems Running Ahead In...Virginia! 2009

R2 of 0.4, and very highly sig t-stats for dSR 11.33 p-value 4.79E-23 and RF minus 8.17 p-value r4.33E-14, with Durbin-Watson 2, so no auto-correlations.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

The p-value represents the percent chance that the predictor is random.

Daniel Adler: Moneyball: Dead, Alive, or on Life Support? 2009

The p-value for the 1-parent variable is horrendous, but that may tell us more about the shoddy attempt at an experiment than about the underlying reality of the matter. —

Does This Analysis of Test Scores Make Any Sense? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007