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by native_samples 1801 days ago
You're right. The numbers are too small to be plausible. I read on Scott Alexander's blog about 5-HTTLPR that in genetics they can get very low P values relative to most life sciences, but 10^-40 indeed seems far too low for any plausible experiment. I guess even in particle physics they don't go that low.