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Re:Result from LHCb experiment challenges the Standard Model by rrmm on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:19PM (#26556792)
Plenty of 3 sigma results have come and gone, (there's obviously an xkcd for this about doing a whole lot of experiments). It's certainly something to watch and I would personally be stoked for some new physics.

I only posted because it was the first thing I wanted to know, and I had to dig around in the article for a bit before I found it at the end.

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Re:Result from LHCb experiment challenges the Standard Model by hardtke on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:18PM (#26557481)
My mentor once said "3 sigma effects happen in physics a lot more often than they should." I've since come to realize that we should do a multiple-hypothesis testing correction on all such results, where the number of hypotheses tested is approximately equal to the number of Ph.D.s granted in particle physics.
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