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Abstract: There has been considerable recent controversy over the use of p-values and the phrase “statistically significant”, both in subject matter settings and in the statistical literature. One approach to avoiding the dichotomization associated with hypothesis testing is to provide distributions for parameters. A familiar distribution is the posterior density of Bayesian inference, but there are renewed efforts to provide something like probability statements for parameter while avoiding specification of a prior probability. I will discuss the strengths and limitations of these procedures, with special attention to so-called objective Bayesian approaches.