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ONE IN TWENTY P = .05 RESULTS IS A FALSE ALARM ON AVERAGE
If you’re not familiar with xkcd and you are a reader of Decision Science News, that’s a source of dissonance in the universe that merits dissolving. Enjoy today’s post (above), and if you are like us, you might want to make the xkcd site one of your default home tabs.
Permanent link to the above comic: http://xkcd.com/882/
Don’t forget the mouseover text:
'So, uh, we did the green study again and got no link. It was probably a–' 'RESEARCH CONFLICTED ON GREEN JELLY BEAN/ACNE LINK; MORE STUDY RECOMMENDED!'
April 6, 2011 @ 5:14 pm
Good point Daniel makes. If you hover your mouse over the cartoon, you will get a special treat on every xkcd cartoon.
April 6, 2011 @ 5:16 pm