William M Connolley wrote:
> you can do sig tests to show that the change is not likely due to chance (cue
> JA...
...who will observe that significance tests can never answer questions
like "was it due to chance" (or not), but only questions like "how
likely is it that observations as extreme as these would arise in a
hypothetical world with no forcing"?
Which is not the same thing at all.
Here closeth the parenthesis.
:-)
James
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