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Yes: replacing the observed statistic by a significance label loses information. The binary positive event has Bayes factor (1−β)/α≃16, but the observed-statistic Bayes factor varies continuously with y. A result just at the threshold has B10​(1.65)≃2.74, while B10​(3)≃79.0. Both would receive the same positive label.
The binary calculation is correct for that deliberately coarsened observation; its problem is treating it as the whole evidence when the statistic is available. This is the point developed in Goodman and Greenland's response.

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