April 11, 2011 by Beth@WeightMaven
From MetaFilter’s A critical moment in statistics:
Half the problem (at least on the science-journalism side of things) is that the statistical meaning of “significant” has no resemblance to the English word “significant,” which unfortunately has the same spelling and pronunciation.
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