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by ordu 1102 days ago
They used p<0.001. It is not social sciences, there anti-noise filters are stricter.
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Ah that's not too bad. Though to be fair you also need the data size. That's only what one in a 1k chance (or is it 10k? Too lazy to count it out). If their dataset is small or they automated testing cofactors there's still a decent chance of false probability.