Comment by tryitnow

Agreed. However, I think you're being overly charitable in calling it a "pet peeve", it's more like a pathological misunderstanding of stats that leads to a lot of bad outcomes especially in popular wellness media.

As an example, read just about any health or nutrition research article referenced in popular media and there's very often a pretty weak effect size even though they've achieved "statistical significance." People then end up making big changes to their lifestyles and habits based on research that really does not justify those changes.