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Re:After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its ... by rlucas on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @04:44PM (#7187036)
Hey, you don't need to be a statistician to understand the "data mining" fallacy. If you look at 100 different null hypotheses, and you set p<.05 as your threshold for rejecting, then you're going to find ~ 5 ones you can reject at p<.05. Duh. Monkeys typing Shakespeare and all that.

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