[throwawaymaths]

> have been producing layperson-accessible science summaries for years/decades that address these and other questions.

Citation please. Every layperson accessible summary has said "we use advanced statistics and machine learning" and I haven't found a simple high school statistics accessible explanation yet. Unlike say the higgs boson, I think for this experiment a simple statistical treatment is not an unreasonable request.

Please show me and correct me. I would love to be able to believe we have detected gravitational waves.

[ssl232]

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e

Probably not high school statistics accessible but Bayesian statistics and Gaussian noise and GR isn't.

[throwawaymaths]

thank you, that is helpful.