The P-Value Song

The P-Value Song is a satire on the use and abuse of P-values in Statistics. The P-value is a measure of the risk taken in rejecting the so-called “null hypothesis“ and thus coming to a substantive conclusion based on empirical data. If the P-value is less than , or 1 out of 20 (this value is chosen out of pure convention), then the risk of the conclusion being false is low and the result is deemed “statistically significant“. The song satirizes the idea that significance can be achieved merely by in