Ever since I’ve been in academia, the term (‘p <0.05’) has always been a constant. From the days of medical school, where my classmates and I learned to read and understand scientific journals and articles, all the way to grad school (where I currently am), for better or for worse, p values have been an eternal constant. We accept reality in the way it is presented to us. In much the same fashion, I accepted the notion of p values and the effect it had on statistical significance as a fundamental part of basic science. ...