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My 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 t
by hardtke 6y ago
My 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.