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I still don't get it. What p-value observations would not be "reasonable" here? It seems to me he's saying that anything between 0 and 1 is completely reasonable, which is a completely pointless statement as I see it.



His point is that the whole point of the field of statistics is that cherry picking results or getting lucky once is not proof of anything, unlike nonstatistical mathematics where one example is enough to justify a claim.




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