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by dev1n 4584 days ago
The discovery of the Higgs Boson was based on a 5-sigma outlier if my memory serves correctly.
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drjesusphd 4584 days ago
What 5-sigma means in that context is it would take a 5-sigma outlier to explain the observations by chance alone.
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dev1n 4584 days ago
Okay. That actually makes much more sense. Thank you.
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