Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Why do we always use 95% confidence for statistical tests in biology?

we dont ALWAYS use 95% in biology and other subjects, we just tend to. psychology tend to use about 90% as their work is more subjective, some clinical trials will use 99%, biologists tend to use 95% as it means you are only likely to be wrong 1/20 times. as you can never be 100% sure you need to compromise.

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