Statistical errors and their tendency to mislead

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here’s a recent article in the scientific journal Nature about the slippery nature of P-values, including a history about how reliance on P-values has evolved in the past 100 years or so: http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700

While I’m personally familiar with many of the pitfalls mentioned this article, I have to admit that a couple of the issues raised are brand new to me. So I’ll refrain from editorializing until I’ve had some time to reflect more deeply on this article.