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95% confidence would be fine (or very nearly fine) if a requirement for funding/publication would be that all data, including negative results, be published as

• beagle3 14y ago
  That would only be true if a) all data, everywhere in the world, including negative results, was published regardless of funding/publication. b) someone actually looked at that data, normalized it, and used it to assess the real significance of every result, in a sane manner (e.g. by using a bayesian inference with some reasonably behaving universal prior). Neither a, b will ever happen, and both are essential. (note: publication of all data is not a sufficient requirement: if 20 independent labs each do the same random experiment, one of them is expected to have a 95% confidence, and when they publish all their data, it consists of that one experiment that seems legit. This _will_ and _already does_ happen by chance)