On: Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenie...

[seanflyon]

xkcd has a comic explaining the same thing.

http://xkcd.com/882/

[voronoff → seanflyon]

While the XKCD comic has a lot of truth to it, it's mainly about many different individual experiments (as well as some poorly done ones.) When running large sets of correlations, standard operating procedure is to use one of several techniques to counteract this effect.

[seanflyon → voronoff]

Each performance measure is a different individual experiment.