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Old 02-03-2011, 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Droodler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
There's an entire field of statistics that deals with these sorts of problems. I just applied it to your question.
Your "application" of statistics to my question was about as useful as some random scientist taking an hour to explain the inner workings of gravity to someone who asked "How much does this rock weigh?"

Just as the person with the rock would have been better served if the scientist had said "I don't know; I don't have a scale handy with which to weigh the rock," I would have been better served if you had not said anything at all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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And yes, you did get unlucky. I did a G test for goodness of fit of the 1/50 chance, and the p-value was 0.1398.

Edit: Based on your results, the FBSS rate is not significantly different than 1/50. With more data, it may be. You didn't get significantly unlucky
If 86 out of 100 people would have gotten an fbss where I did not, how can you say that isn't significant?
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