@ZachWeinersmith
Relax. They use a base 6 system as they have 6 fingers in total, so when they say 0.03 that is equivalent to our 3/36=0.083
@ionica
@StephanMatthiesen @ZachWeinersmith @ionica Beat me to this clarification :-(
@TomF @StephanMatthiesen @ZachWeinersmith @ionica I know, I wanted to be the one geeking out on base 6 math...
@ZachWeinersmith
They say that, but they're really good at p-hacking.
@ZachWeinersmith
TECHNICALLY [pushes glasses up], an alien species with three fingers on each hand wouldn't use a decimal number system, but more likely a hexal (sexal?) one. So when they wrote their equivalent of ".03", it would actually represent 3 / 6^2 = 3 / 36 = 1 / 12, which is approximately .08, which is of course GREATER than .05.
@DougWar40k @ZachWeinersmith That's assuming they count with their fingers. They may count with their 10 penises.
^^
This is the Sunday morning relaxing context I have grown to appreciate around here.
Signed, Totally a Non-Math Person
@DougWar40k @ZachWeinersmith
How many fingers did the Babylonians have?
@drgroftehauge @ZachWeinersmith
All we really know about their anatomy is from their statues. What do we count as fingers? The hooves or the feathers?
@drgroftehauge @ZachWeinersmith
I just counted both the hooves AND the feathers, and it adds up to 60. Mystery solved.
@ZachWeinersmith fuck... that's the stuff of nightmares!
@ZachWeinersmith
Physicists get cranky if p is greater than one in ten thousand, but they are generally dealing with large data sets.
It's funny how arbitrary the accepted p-values are.
@ZachWeinersmith “Billions” is what slays me.
Just churning out the papers.