Replies to post #134234 on Biotech Values

[dav1234]

that woulda been my second guess,lol

[zipjet]

IF this poster had some hypothetical DDT he would spray it on this thread.

:-)

ij

[poorgradstudent]

OT:

If people were insects, they would be hexapedal and would likely designate 0.06 as the de facto threshold for statistical significance.

I'm on the record as being anti-quiz, so take these grumblings as those of a grumpy old man who wants the kids to get off his lawn, but...

... that answer doesn't even make sense. If you're to make a connection between pedal-ity (insert more appropriate word) and p-value threshold, then it would only make sense that hexapedals would look for a p value of 0.15 since we bipedal humans look for 0.05.

[the_busy_ant]

If people were insects, they would be hexapedal and would likely designate 0.06 as the de facto threshold for statistical significance.

Reminds me of this joke.

[iwfal]

If people were insects, they would be hexapedal and would likely designate 0.06 as the de facto threshold for statistical significance.

Actually this is incorrect - no self-respecting insect would designate 0.06 as the threshold -g-.

[iandy]

If people were insects, they would be hexapedal and would likely designate 0.06 as the de facto threshold for statistical significance.

There might be a flaw in this hypothesis.
Could the assertion that insects would base their counting system on the number of limbs they possess be arbitrary and/or anthropomorphic?
Cicadas for example count in 13 and 17 year periods which are both prime numbers BTW.