Re:UN experts find 'no harmful effects' from Fukushima (2021)
by gweinberg on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:44PM
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That's not the way statistics work. You won't be able to definitively state there was an increase in the number of cancers based on statistics if the actual increase was smaller than the uncertainty in the number of cancers you would expect. That doesn't mean the increase was zero.
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Re:UN experts find 'no harmful effects' from Fukushima (2021)
by NovemberWhiskey on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:55PM
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>That's not the way statistics work.
Testing the null hypothesis is exactly the way that statistics works.