willdepue fires back: the result is 40 sigma, error bars irrelevant
willdepue · x · 2026-11-13
Responding to criticism about missing error bars, willdepue argues they're absent because the result reaches 40 sigma — far beyond any conventional significance threshold — as part of an ongoing spat over a research report's methodology.
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