Comments on “The roles, challenges, and merits of the p value” by Chén et al. (Patterns, 2023, 4(12), 100878)

Chén et al. recently published a systematic review of the _p_ value produced by null hypothesis significance tests (NHSTs) in _Patterns_ (2023, 4(12), 100878, ISSN 2666-3899, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.100878). We argue that their paper does not reveal the actual meaning of the _p_ value in real-world problems, and their view on the _p_ value is another form of common misconceptions about the _p_ value. This commentary focuses on the _p_ value produced by the two-sample _z_-test and explores its meaning. We argue that the _p_ value is not a valid probabilistic measure in probabilistic decision-making systems as they suggested.