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Being Statistically Significant Is Nothing Like Being Pregnant
http://www.westonaprice.org/blogs/cm...eing-pregnant/ "If we want to show that a drug reduces the risk of disease, on the other hand, we might want something much stricter, like P0.01 or P0.001, because we know from experience that drugs are often more harmful than they first appear in clinical trials, and newer drugs are usually more expensive than old ones, so we don’t want to adopt an expensive and potentially dangerous drug on flimsy evidence for its efficacy. On the other hand, for the very same reason we might take a more liberal approach when assessing the potential harm of something new. If a study shows that P = 0.06 that vegetable oils cause cancer, we should be much more cautious about swigging the soybean oil." Tru dat. -- Dogman "I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything" - Richard Feynman |
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