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Part of of the table text on suppressing sigma, from "The question is, if the way the Fixion works ..." through "... sigma has been artificially lowered below the proof threshold" needs work IMO, but I'm not confident I could do a good job.  I think the point attempted is that, depending on point of view, on "which"  sigma is suppressed (the value of sigma itself, or the values of data on which 5-sigma analysis is performed), the result could be either false positives or false negatives, respectively.  But, I'm not even sure I'm understanding it correctly, and I am quite sure someone other than me could concisely clarify the point.  I originally read "suppressing sigma" as only the former, resulting is false positives only, but I believe I now can grasp the other option.  [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 20:59, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 
Part of of the table text on suppressing sigma, from "The question is, if the way the Fixion works ..." through "... sigma has been artificially lowered below the proof threshold" needs work IMO, but I'm not confident I could do a good job.  I think the point attempted is that, depending on point of view, on "which"  sigma is suppressed (the value of sigma itself, or the values of data on which 5-sigma analysis is performed), the result could be either false positives or false negatives, respectively.  But, I'm not even sure I'm understanding it correctly, and I am quite sure someone other than me could concisely clarify the point.  I originally read "suppressing sigma" as only the former, resulting is false positives only, but I believe I now can grasp the other option.  [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 20:59, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
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Re: "this will improve with the BICEP3 data that should be published in 2016." - I assume this will have happened by now but I'm not familiar with where to look. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.146.41|162.158.146.41]] 08:31, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 

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