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- Comment on WHAT IF WHAT IF 3 days ago:
There’s certainly a lot to discuss, relative to experimental design and ethics. Peer review and good design hopefully minimizes the clearly undesirable scenarios you describe as well as other subtle sources of error.
I was really just trying to explain what we’re looking at on op’s graph.
- Comment on WHAT IF WHAT IF 3 days ago:
My limited knowledge on this subject: The z-score is how many standard deviations you are from the mean.
In statistical analysis, things are often evaluated against a p (probability) of 0.05 (or 5%), which also corresponds to a z-score of 1.96 (or roughly 2).
So, when you’re looking at your data, things with a z score >2 or <2 would correspond to findings that are “statistically significant,” in that you’re at least 95% sure that your findings aren’t due to random chance.
As others here have pointed out, z-scores closer to 0 would correspond to findings where they couldn’t be confident that whatever was being tested was any different than the control, akin to a boring paper which wouldn’t be published. "We tried some stuff but idk, didn’t seem to make a difference.*
- Comment on Banana 3 weeks ago:
I think they just peered over the edge and were convinced when they saw sphincter after sphincter.
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 4 weeks ago:
It sounds like gog is pretty great, with their DRM free software.
I’m generally indifferent towards steam but I’m under the impression that they’ve contributed a lot to the recent developments in Linux gaming compatibility, and this has removed a pretty big hurdle for people who want to move away from windows, and I just think that’s swell.
- Comment on I Quit 5 weeks ago:
This is more like a chart of, “does being smart keep you above the poverty line?”
- Comment on Updates that don't tell me what is being updated 5 weeks ago:
Also, it seems to have been written by an arrogant 19 year old. Everyone knows what a cornucopia is.
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 5 weeks ago:
I’d say the silliness seen here goes hand-in-hand with curiosity and intelligence, which makes them clever and effective hunters. This type of derpiness also earns them a rent free spot in monkey houses. So, dumb as it may seem, this is actually a very fit behavior.
- Comment on Like a cool summer breeze 1 month ago:
It’s fun to pee at full power, but that’s how you end up with a varicose vein in your testicle.
- Comment on Do you truly believe that this is a human being? 1 month ago:
Grade A trolling
- Comment on Yummy 1 month ago:
It kinda looks like they went back for a second bite.
- Comment on Former Hyundai employees on a rooftop at the Utah Valley University campus (2025, colorized) 2 months ago:
Pretty cool that those decorative roof spur things actually went back to functioning as the angle-of-vulnerability reducing structures, rather than styling elements.