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Old 03-20-2018 | 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Slayer1234
I’m confused all around. Statistically unlikely is not a term really used it statistics. Statistical significance is something that statistics test for. What are we testing? What is the null hypothesis? The study posted wasn’t trying to state the majority of women who claimed to be drugged and raped aren’t drugged at all. It also wasn’t hypothesizing that the majority of women who are drugged and raped are done so with one particular drug over another. It was just a random sample. No statistical test was used on the data except converting the occurrences to percentages. This is getting way too nerdy.
Indeed. Yet the one who posted it did so to justify a comment that the validity of the statement of the FO was “statistically unlikely” which served only to demonstrate they didn’t know what they were talking about.