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Comment author: mwengler 22 July 2014 03:16:18AM 1 point [-]

Suppose there were 60 studies that showed no correlation between autism and vaccines at a 99% confidence level. THen it would not be particularly surprising that there were indeed 60 studies with that result.

Would you expect the authors to point out that their result was actually 99% confident even though the usual standard, which they were not explicitly claiming anyway, was 95%?