Cyan comments on Too good to be true - LessWrong

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

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Comment author: Cyan 12 July 2014 03:00:57AM 10 points [-]

No; it's standard to set the threshold for your statistical test for 95% confidence. That's its statistical power.

"Power" is a statistical term of art, and its technical meaning is neither 1 - alpha nor 1 - p.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 12 July 2014 02:49:36PM *  3 points [-]

Oops; you're right. Careless of me; fixed.

Comment author: DanielLC 20 July 2014 06:02:42AM 0 points [-]

It's times like this that I wish Doctor Seuss was a mathematician (or statistician in this case). If they were willing to make up new words, we'd be able to talk without accidentally using jargon that has technical meaning we didn't intend.