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The horrifying world of confidence intervals

Posted on 2nd March 2022 by Mateus Araújo

We often see experimental results reported with some “error bars”, such as saying that the mass of the Higgs boson is $125.10 \pm 0.14\, \mathrm{GeV/c^2}$. What do these error bars means, though? I asked some people what they thought it … Continue reading →

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