{"id":15288,"date":"2014-09-16T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15288"},"modified":"2014-09-16T13:28:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:28:35","slug":"one-two-five-sigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15288","title":{"rendered":"One, Two, Five Sigma!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/life-and-physics\/2014\/sep\/15\/five-sigma-statistics-bayes-particle-physics\">Five sigma and all that<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another of Lyons\u2019 themes in the article is to address the rather arbitrary \u201cfive sigma\u201d (5\u03c3) significance traditionally required by particle physicists to claim a discovery of a new particle or some other new effect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is often presented just as physics requiring 5\u03c3, but Butterworth is a physicist and knowns that it&#8217;s not true in all sub-disciplines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five sigma and all that Another of Lyons\u2019 themes in the article is to address the rather arbitrary \u201cfive sigma\u201d (5\u03c3) significance traditionally required by particle physicists to claim a discovery of a new particle or some other new effect. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}