True And False Discoveries: How To Tell Them Apart
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 11:40
in Astronomy & Space
Many new particles and other new physics signals claimed in the last twenty years were later proven to be spurious effects, due to background fluctuations or unknown sources of systematic error. The list is long, unfortunately - and longer than the list of particles and effects that were confirmed to be true by subsequent more detailed or more statistically-rich analysis. read more