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Emily Dickinson and monkeys on the stair Or: What is the significance of the 5% significance level?
Author(s) -
Kelly Mark
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00693.x
Subject(s) - statistical significance , coincidence , set (abstract data type) , action (physics) , adversary , psychology , mathematics , computer science , statistics , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics , programming language
‘Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. 1 ’ But when does statistical significance kick in? Statisticians set the 5% level as Biblical; but as Mark Kelly points out, it ain't necessarily so.