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95% Confidence Interval

Last year around 27,000 psychology papers used a 95% confidence interval. So we can say with 95% confidence that at least 1,292 of them were wrong.

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    Wrong. A confidence interval has nothing to do with proportion, but only estimates the possibility that, out of a...
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Matt Henderson

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