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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Announcement: This Tuesday’s Newspaper Comic Strip non-Sunday was 2 and a half hours late. The full significance of this delay has not yet been measured. If the significance amounts to more than zero, we apologize for whatever inconvenience this may have caused. If the significance is less than zero, please disregard this announcement.
March 6th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Re: today’s announcement: you guys need a little crash course in statistics. Traditionally, the statistical cutoff for significance is alpha = .05. Any alpha SMALLER than .05 shows that the difference is likely to be significant in all but 5 (or fewer) percent of cases.
Was the inconvenience for NCS going up late significant then? Well I’d estimate it at around alpha = .89 or so, seeing as it was here when I got up this morning. To know for sure, you’d have to survey your viewers and run a few ANOVAs…
I love his face when he hears Hole blaring at him from the TV….it looks like he’s being physically assaulted…
March 8th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
How can something be less significant than zero? That would make it anti-significant. Something that is anti-significant would become significant, because hypothetically, even anti-significance would exert some sort of relevant, substantial measurable force on the universe around it.
March 9th, 2007 at 3:14 am
… vote Quimby!