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Balgair on Feb 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Forecasts of genetic fate just got a lot more accu...

I think GP is talking about Type I errors; where you go hunting for correlations that are p<0.05 in a data set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors

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