Whithout pretending to be in the know by the least, I recall that around 3 sigmas in favour of the Higgs, Peter Woit was reporting about the rumorology on that

Whithout pretending to be in the know by the least, I recall that around 3 sigmas in favour of the Higgs, Peter Woit was reporting about the rumorology on that discovery that later was confirmed, I think that the consensus target could be about 5 sigmas. http://kipac.stanford.edu/kipac/how-special-3-sigma http://kipac.stanford.edu/kipac/how-special-3-sigma http://blog.higgshunters.org/tag/5-sigma/ http://blog.higgshunters.org/tag/5-sigma/ http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4772 http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=4772