It has been a while since I have updated Spotlight-On-Science with a new posting. I have been busy working at the University of Oxford on a research position combining advanced computer applications and MRI.
What is a p-value? Scientists are regularly tasked with the job of demonstrating that their experimental results are significant and to do so they test for statistical significance (and insert things that look like this in their studies: p < 0.05) but what does that mean?