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Plenty of 3 sigma results have come and gone, (there's obviously an xkcd for this about doing a whole lot of experiments). It's certainly something to watch an
by rrmm 6y ago
Plenty of 3 sigma results have come and gone, (there's obviously an xkcd for this about doing a whole lot of experiments). It's certainly something to watch and I would personally be stoked for some new physics.
I only posted because it was the first thing I wanted to know, and I had to dig around in the article for a bit before I found it at the end.
- hardtke 6y agoMy mentor once said "3 sigma effects happen in physics a lot more often than they should." I've since come to realize that we should do a multiple-hypothesis testing correction on all such results, where the number of hypotheses tested is approximately equal to the number of Ph.D.s granted in particle physics.