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"textContent": "Side issue: The incredible amount of emphasis on controlling \\alpha when it has nothing to do with the probability of making a decision error has really hurt science. I guess this could be viewed as an NP thing, or perhaps a wish to check the calibration of Fisher’s p-values.",
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