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First, there's a lot of science that's done without "experiments".

Second, the problem with significance is it's pinning "not just some random noise" to an arbitrary threshold. Results with a p-value of 0.051 and those with a p-value of 0.049 are effectively the same, and yet are treated as if they're worlds apart.



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