@son_of_bob, I preferred to put in this topic the following recommendation based on the comment you made in https://discuss.actualism.online/t/spiritual-consciousness/508/54:
If you are not familiar with it, I think you will enjoy and benefit from Robert Matthews’ book “Chancing it” which, in addition to examine the p-values vs sigmas problem, analyzes the deeper underlying problems as well such as assuming normality, assuming independence, using regression inappropriately and, in general, frequentist/classical vs bayesian statistics and the erroneous conclusions, due to logical problems, of many of the papers that have used and still use the former.