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Looks like some people didn't like you putting the concept in more accessible terms. "Three sigma" has a real interpretation, it's not just a little score where
by lainga 6y ago
Looks like some people didn't like you putting the concept in more accessible terms. "Three sigma" has a real interpretation, it's not just a little score where you pull out LaTeX when it reaches 6.
- rrmm 6y agoBut LaTeX seems to take a whole lot longer to run when it's 6 sigma than when it's 3.
- mlyle 6y agoOf course, to perform any valid statistical reasoning, you need to consider the prior. The standard model has held up very well, and we do a lot of experiments-- any of which has a small chance of popping out a result that looks highly significant by chance. There's a reason why 6 sigma is the line to take things super seriously (in fundamental physics).