On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Rick Froman wrote:
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> Stephen's memory is eidetic as usually with the exception of one false
> memory. According to the press release I found in the TIPS archives
> that discusses the research, "Four weeks after the female cagemates
> were introduced, the cell bodies and nuclei of SNB [the spinal nucleus
> of the bulbocavernosus] motoneurons of copulators were
> significantly smaller than those of the non-copulators."
Eidetic, nothing. I had the actual paper in front of me when I made
that mistake. But it does give me the opportunity to express a
reservation I have about the paper which I previously mentioned
privately to Marc.
I counted three separate statistical tests on the data. Especially
given that the result (smaller cell bodies and nuclei) was unexpected,
a correction for multiple comparisons might have been prudent. Using
the Bonferroni, the critical test would then be at .05/3 = 0.017.
None of the values he reported would have been significant at that
level.
-Stephen
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