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xkcd has a comic explaining the same thing. http://xkcd.com/882/ http://xkcd.com/882/
by seanflyon 12y ago
xkcd has a comic explaining the same thing.
http://xkcd.com/882/ http://xkcd.com/882/
- voronoff 12y agoWhile the XKCD comic has a lot of truth to it, it's mainly about many different individual experiments (as well as some poorly done ones.) When running large sets of correlations, standard operating procedure is to use one of several techniques to counteract this effect.
- seanflyon 12y agoEach performance measure is a different individual experiment.