My initial answer to your starting question was “I disagree with this statement because they likely used 20 different ways of calculating the p-value and selected the one that was statistically significant”. Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
My initial answer to your starting question was “I disagree with this statement because they likely used 20 different ways of calculating the p-value and selected the one that was statistically significant”. Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis