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Just about every decision a doctor makes involves statistical significance. It validates whether two variables are related or if one is a result of random chance, and it does so with 95 percent confidence. It answers the question, does a treatment cause a complication or would the complication happen in spite of the treatment? These are everyday problems for doctors.
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Ninety-five percent confidence is also the sine qua non of statistical significance. While medical experts repetitively recite the mantras, “There is a reasonable degree of medical probability,” or “more likely than not,” which are the sine quibus non for preponderance of evidence, you have unequivocally expressed statistical significance just by using these 18 words in the medical record.
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If you can prove these 18 words, you are dismissed with prejudice. Otherwise, you are the culpable party.
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“(On the energy radiated by the Sun)
It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.”
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