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One way around the proposed problem is to become much more educated about statistics, another way is just to bump your threshold of statistical significance up

One way around the proposed problem is to become much more educated about statistics, another way is just to bump your threshold of statistical significance up to 99.9%. There's nothing magic about 95%, it was a convenient heuristic for science and that's all. With the vast amounts of data points that a high traffic website will generate, reaching p < 0.001 should be not too difficult and a significance threshold of 99.9% will erase a lot of other statistical sins.

Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"One way around the proposed problem is to become much more educated about statistics" Sounds like a plan. I feel dumb after reading that article. Any ideas on where to start? I found some videos at Khan Academy [0], will those help me grasp the concepts discussed in this thread? [0] http://www.khanacademy.org/video/statistics--the-average?playlist=Statistics http://www.khanacademy.org/video/statistics--the-average?pla...