One pretty common statistical analysis is group comparison. We may be interested in how well patients respond to a certain drug, the reduction of car accidents by the introduction of a new traffic regulation, student performance under different teaching approaches, and so on.
Sometimes, this type of question is framed under the hypothesis testing scenario with the goal of declaring a result statistically significant. Relying only on statistical significance can be problematic for many reasons: on the one hand, statistical significance is not equivalent to practical significance; on the other hand, a really small effect can be declared significant just by collecting enough data. The idea of hypothesis testing is connected to the concept of p-values. This is not a fundamental connection but a cultural one; people are used to thinking that way mostly because that...
