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JoshTriplett on Nov 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: LHC May Have Found Crack in Modern Physics

As far as I know, 3 sigma implies 1 in 370, not 1 in 100. (Still insufficiently unlikely for a conclusion.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68-95-99.7_rule

waqf on Nov 18, 2011 [–]

And it certainly does not imply "one chance in 100 the result is a fluke". Will science journalists never learn how to interpret a p-value into English?

hessenwolf on Nov 18, 2011 | [–]

I imagine about 200 years after scientists finally stop getting it wrong, so almost surely never.

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