mfb comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mfb 24 February 2012 09:19:56PM *  0 points [-]

"OPERA or others will find a significant error in OPERAs measurements in 2012: 50%"

This already became true, even if we don't know the size (or even the direction) of the effect yet.

After hearing a talk of an ATLAS higgs researcher, an update lowered my higgs expectations a bit: ATLAS and CMS will present a signal signifiance (local and global) of 5 sigma with the data of (2011+)2012 in combination at some time in the future: 85%

With a presentation of results (and 5 sigma, from any dataset) in 2012: 70%