As I was taking my statistics quiz today, I had a revelation, the validity of which will now be evaluated as I attempt to remember and articulate it the best I can now.
Statistical significance is an important concept in statistics because if a statistic you derive from a study sample is deemed insignificant, then your results are likely to be the product of chance.
In a sense, humans are all statisticians, whether we know it or not.
I hypothesize that humans are consciously or subconsciously constantly evaluating statistical and practical significance, but irrationally, haphazardly, and not empirically.
The significance of a statistic becomes difficult to gauge because we do not clearly define the population.
Then there is statistical significance and practical significance.
For example, when we see a
In a sense, humans are all statisticians.
When a black
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