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Old 12-05-2007, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Ersby View Post
Where did 1-5% come from? I thought Steve said you couldn't test this at 1 in 20?
He meant test after preliminary....

Steve Novella wrote 'In the preliminary test the threshold is not 1/1000, as is claimed. We used a 1-5% threshold for ours. But of course, you can't give a million bucks to 1/20 people on average who make a claim. The final test has to be statistically rigorous.
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