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Re:Stethoscope as weapon of mass distraction by ludamad on Saturday January 03, 2015 @02:49PM (#8831760)
I second the motion in the comments that people should pedantically correct "statistically significant" as "statistically detectable".
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Re:Stethoscope as weapon of mass distraction by abecedarius on Saturday January 03, 2015 @05:30PM (#8832303)
I dunno. If we're going to change the name and try to be precise, I'd go for "subjunctively unlikely": a certain random experiment, if run, would probably not produce results at least this extreme.

It doesn't just foreground what's actually claimed, it's easier to say -- 7 syllables versus 8.

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