TY - JOUR T1 - Banishing “Black/White Thinking”: A Trio of Teaching Tricks JF - eneuro JO - eNeuro DO - 10.1523/ENEURO.0456-19.2019 VL - 6 IS - 6 SP - ENEURO.0456-19.2019 AU - Richard T. Born Y1 - 2019/11/01 UR - http://www.eneuro.org/content/6/6/ENEURO.0456-19.2019.abstract N2 - Literally hundreds of statisticians have rightly called for an end to statistical significance testing (Amrhein et al., 2019; Wasserstein et al., 2019). But the practice of arbitrarily thresholding p values is not only deeply embedded in statistical practice, it is also congenial to the human mind. It is thus not sufficient to tell our students, “Don’t do this.” We must vividly show them why the practice is wrong and its effects detrimental to scientific progress. I offer three teaching examples I have found to be useful in prompting students to think more deeply about the problem and to begin to interpret the results of statistical procedures as measures of how evidence should change our beliefs, and not as bright lines separating truth from falsehood. ER -