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Comment by V__

1 day ago

I really like this video [1] from 3blue1brown, where he proposes to think about significance as a way to update the probability. One positive test (or in this analog a study) updates the probability by X % and thus you nearly always need more tests (or studies) for a 'meaningful' judgment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG4VkPoG3ko

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