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What does "significant" mean? It means whatever I say it means, it's fairly useless as anything to convey a fact without a definition. If I needed to program a
by leakycap 1y ago
What does "significant" mean? It means whatever I say it means, it's fairly useless as anything to convey a fact without a definition.
If I needed to program a light sensor to signal when it detects "significant" change in lighting, what does that mean? If I don't define it, it means nothing.
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- Leherenn 1y agoI read it as "statistically significant", i.e. above noise/error level. Sounds pretty well defined to me, at least in a scientific paper.
- leakycap 1y agoThe reason it is a weasel word is exactly this -- it is a word with an implied meaning, not an implicit one. We aren't talking about "statistically significant" -- that carries meaning only if the statistic is explained, though.
- redwall_hp 1y agoSignificant has a very specific meaning in statistics, which is going to come up in any biomedical research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance
- leakycap 1y agoDo you think an LLM takes this into account when it uses the word?
- tiahura 1y agoIs the context statistical? If so, then yes.
- leakycap 1y agoWe clearly disagree, in that case - have you used LLMs? The person I was replying to linked to a Wiki article on "statistical significance" which is not the word being used or discussed in this convo; did you note that before you replied? You expect an AI to follow context, but the context switched here and none of the humans are seemingly pointing it out. I'd expect LESS of an LLM, not more.