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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2009 11:34:59PM 18 points [-]

According to A New Challenge to Einstein, General Relativity has been refuted at 98% confidence.

I wonder if it wouldn’t be more accurate to say that, actually, 98% confidence has been refuted at General Relativity.

-- Black Belt Bayesian

Comment author: donjoe 27 September 2010 09:02:11PM 0 points [-]

And while on the subject of confidence values and misuse of statistics in science, this should prove an interesting read: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/09/fetishizing_pvalues.html

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