CONSEQUENCE ATLAS SUPPLEMENT: 15 Additional Entries

Section F: Additional Scientific and Statistical (Entries 51–58) ### F-1: The $p$-value Dichotomization — 0.05 as Magic Threshold | Field | Detail | |:------|:-------| | Frame Violated | Silent Scale Type (variant: silent threshold) | | Domain | All empirical sciences | | Symptom | Results with $p = 0.049$ are treated as "significant" while $p = 0.051$ is "non-significant." The threshold 0.05 is a silent, arbitrary convention treated as an ontological boundary. | | *Root Cause