Don’t Let the P in P Value Stand for Privilege

Heather Krause
3 min readAug 2, 2022

by Heather Krause | Jul 29, 2022 | Analysis

If we’re going to use P values as our measure of what’s a meaningful difference versus a difference due to random chance, we need to recognize that P values are highly dependent on sample size.

This dependency leads to a situation where we call a problem experienced by a large group “real” while we dismiss the very

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Heather Krause

Data scientist & statistician (one of only 150 accredited PStats worldwide). Providing data science services grounded in an equity lens. https://weallcount.com