dvasya comments on Too good to be true - Less Wrong

24 Post author: PhilGoetz 11 July 2014 08:16PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (119)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 11 July 2014 09:18:28PM *  2 points [-]

No; it's standard to set the threshold for your statistical test for 95% confidence. Studies with larger samples can detect smaller differences between groups with that same statistical power.

Comment author: dvasya 11 July 2014 10:42:33PM 2 points [-]

How does your choice of threshold (made beforehand) affect your actual data and the information about the actual phenomenon contained therein?