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Is there any reason at all to think that these medical studies didn't use 95%? The universal confidence level, used pretty much everywhere in medicine and psychology except in rare subfields like genomics, so universal that authors of papers typically don't even bother to specify or justify the confidence level?
I'd love to see a paper get published that justified the confidence level with "because if I wanted to do rigorous science I would have studied physics" or "because we only have enough jelly beans to run 30 studies, will only be given more jelly beans if we get a positive result and so need to be sure".