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Re:Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN by panda-giddiness on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:23AM (#26620495)
> Due to the sheer number of hypotheses get tested all the time in particle physics, 3 sigma effects appear all the time, and then disappear before getting a larger certainty.

See, eg, the look-elsewhere effect [1] or the problem of multiple comparisons [2].

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem

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