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@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

@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.

@DougWar40k @ZachWeinersmith

^^
This is the Sunday morning relaxing context I have grown to appreciate around here.

Signed, Totally a Non-Math Person

@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.