Scientists say their results are ‘significant’, what does it mean?

I think we can all agree that scientific papers aren’t exactly page turners. Written by scientists, for scientists, they are often in a language that only vaguely resembles English. Perhaps one of the most daunting aspects of a scientific paper is the stats section. But what do statistics really mean in the real world? An example from leukemia research helps to break it down.

Researchers should always look for the magic number which indicates statistically significant differences in their experiments: most people agree this number to be 0.05 (this may be written in a paper written as p < 0.05).

Read more here at "The Conversation".

Source: measuringu.com