PhilGoetz comments on The Universal Medical Journal Article Error - Less Wrong Discussion
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It is because it is a statistical problem that you can't replace "all" with "most". The F-value threshold was calculated assuming "all", not "most". You'd need a different threshold if you don't mean "all".
Also, the people I am complaining about explicitly use "all" when they interpret medical journal articles in which a test for an effect was failed as having proven that the effect does not exist for any patients.