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Re:Forecasts of genetic fate just got a lot more accurate by Balgair on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:23PM (#16486450)
I think GP is talking about Type I errors; where you go hunting for correlations that are p<0.05 in a data set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors

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