A caricature of one recipe might read: Apply a significance test to
each result, believe the result implicitly if the conventional 
level of significance is reached, believe the null hypothesis 
otherwise.  Such a complete flight from reality and its 
uncertainties is fortunately rare, but periodically considering 
its extremism may help us keep our balance.

F. Mosteller & J. W. Tukey, 1977, p 25.
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