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Significance unfortunately is a useful means toward a personal ends in the advance of science - status and widely distributed publications, a big laboratory, a staff of research assistants, a reduction in teaching load, a better salary, the finer wines of Bordeaux. Precision, knowledge, and control. In a narrow and cynical sense statistical significance is the way to achieve these. Design experiment. Then calculate statistical significance. Publish articles showing "significant" results. Enjoy p
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― The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
― The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
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The aim of the research is to determine what groups can be drawn up as a result of regular association of place-names. A further step is to consider whether such groups have a geographical significance. This was accepted by Palmer as a reasonable hypothesis; Wilson argued the case for it by considering possible ways in which information to be recorded on the tablets was received by the scribes. Underlying this work is the assumption that groupings may have a geographical basis, but it has still
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― Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
― Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
