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Originally Posted by Shiraz
I am about 95% confident that, had they not found a 5sigma event, the 2sigma one would have been splashed all over the media - provided of course that it is not an injected test signal. |
i would hope they wouldn't splash a 2 sigma detection around, that just means that out of 20 candidate signals they would give a false positive reading on 1. mind you i have no idea how many candidate signals they look at but 2 sigma is way too low