Tuesday, May 13, 2008

So the semester is over

I had my last final today (Marketing Research) and I'm happy to report that I understood this noise from the aforelinked NIH study on the work habits of dentists:
Multivariate regression analyses found that controlling for other factors, Women dentists worked on average 4.8 fewer hours per week than men (p-value < .05).
The calculated p-value of less than alpha .05 means that the null-hypothesis is rejected because it is more than 95% likely that the sample means do not represent equal hypothesized true population means*.

I also learned this semester that male dentists are dentistas, just like the ladies.

Now, on to the Peloponnesian War! Athens sucks. I hope they lose.

*
Don't worry, I don't intend to ever write anything like that again.

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