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<p>brand_182, I’m not going to get on your case this time because you’re probably just ignorant on the topic of mathematical statistics.</p>

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@briantheman

i prefer statistical analysis over them.

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<p>He’s obviously well-versed in statistics. Therefore, brand, when brian used the term “significantly better,” he wasn’t using “significantly” to mean “fairly large in amount or quantity” - he was using it in terms of statistics.</p>

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The statistical significance of a result is the probability that the observed relationship (e.g., between variables) or a difference (e.g., between means) in a sample occurred by pure chance (“luck of the draw”), and that in the population from which the sample was drawn, no such relationship or differences exist.

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<p>If that doesn’t clear things up for you, open up a stat book.</p>