http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/2012/07/a-strange-pink-elephant-the-higgs-boson-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-strange-pink-elephant-the-higgs-boson-2 A wry look at all things statistical and/or scientific with an engineering perspective. Mon, 27 May 2013 18:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/2012/07/a-strange-pink-elephant-the-higgs-boson-2/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Eric Kvaalen Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:39:22 +0000 http://www.statsmadeeasy.net/?p=1203#comment-111 It’s amazing how often you see the wrong explanation of what 5 sigmas means, even from science magazines like New Scientist. They say it means that there’s a chance of 1 in so many million THAT the result is a fluke. Your Carl Bialik got it right.

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