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Very good! I find it aggravating that the word "significant" is thrown around casually to refer to outcomes that are "statistically significant" yet "extremely
by glangdale 7y ago
Very good! I find it aggravating that the word "significant" is thrown around casually to refer to outcomes that are "statistically significant" yet "extremely small".
We would encounter this a lot in performance engineering - sometimes you could isolate that a new optimization was statistically significantly better, yet only worth 0.1% in terms of performance improvement (possibly in exchange for a whole bunch of new code).
- AllegedAlec 7y agoYeah, that's what the word means in scientific circles. Please refer to the following list when confused: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eEBFGRO1UgA6OYoUF9XgRpwgXdliWIYB4J07qElEv-Y/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&hl=en_US&output=html https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eEBFGRO1UgA6OYoUF9Xg...
- jdietrich 7y agoAt least in medicine, there's a useful distinction between "statistically significant" (the math says that this drug works) and "clinically significant" (this might actually be worth giving to patients).