Re:Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN
by marcosdumay on Monday March 29, 2021 @09:15AM
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Not really. The amount of confidence you have grows exponentially with the observed deviation, and that last one grows kinda proportionally to the amount of data you have (if the hypothesis is real, of course).
So there is some fine adjustment possible, but it's very small on the experiments where you need a lot of confidence. There is more margin to judge low non-significant results at the low confidence end, as exponentials grow slowly when they are small.
So there is some fine adjustment possible, but it's very small on the experiments where you need a lot of confidence. There is more margin to judge low non-significant results at the low confidence end, as exponentials grow slowly when they are small.