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Relevant technical terms: 'look-elsewhere effect' and 'false alarm rate' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-e

by ISL 14y ago

Relevant technical terms: 'look-elsewhere effect' and 'false alarm rate' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_rate There are more similar considerations. Statisticians have been very busy for the last century or so.

rubinelli 14y ago
As my statistics professor liked to say, "Numbers are meek creatures. If you torture them long enough, they will say whatever you want to hear."
- asperous 14y ago
  This is the key to the accounting profession