Doug_S. comments on I Defy the Data! - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 August 2007 09:33PM

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Comment author: Doug_S. 13 August 2007 06:23:32PM 3 points [-]

I've read that physics journals use a 0.001% standard for statistical significance. Maybe, in the case of "alternative medicine" or "parapsychology" experiments that must rely on unknown physics to work, we should insist on the same standard? ;)