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nitrogen on Feb 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Habits of cell phone usage and sperm quality

Isn't it the case that we can expect roughly one in fifty studies with p<0.02 to be the result of statistical noise?

schoen on Feb 4, 2016 [–]

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