Recently a senior European figure warned the British that unless they became more deeply involved in the EU, Britain would sink to the level of significance of Norway or Switzerland.
Too often, people believe the approach to solving complex questions is to just reduce our standards for confidence when making a decision about data (more technically, this may translate to reducing the level of significance in a statistical test).
But the Tevatron results are currently at the one-sigma level of certainty - a lower level of statistical significance than those presented by the Atlas and CMS teams.
The new study does not reach the level of statistical significance.
Other experiments had seen some evidence of the D-meson's flipping, but this is the first that crosses the "five sigma" level of statistical significance that particle physicists use to denote an official discovery.
Only one of those is moving in the right direction above the level of the test of statistical significance.
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In the case of this vehicle, we applied a heightened level of scrutiny because of its historical significance.
When On the Origin of Species did finally go to the printers it was supposed to have caused a sensation , although some now suspect the level of controversy, just like the significance of the gap years, has been exaggerated.
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The international-level register, which features items of global significance, includes items from the UK such as 1215 Magna Carta, the Mappa Mundi and the film The Battle of the Somme.
Corresponding regional and country-level registers have also been established around the world to honour documentary heritage of local significance.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Memory of the World
Country-level Memory of the World Registers exist around the globe, helping to promote documentary heritage of local significance.
As a general matter, the Statement of Energy Effects should be prepared at the level of detail appropriate and practicable for reasoned decisionmaking on the matter involved, taking into consideration uncertainties, the significance and complexity of the decision, and the need to adequately inform the public.
WHITEHOUSE: Memoranda 01-27 (Guidance for Implementing E.O. 13211)
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