Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
The fact that most people have no idea what a 95% confidence interval actually means is deeply distressing to me, because that means that while they may have access to peer-reviewed studies in journals, they lack the competence to actually understand them.

A 95% confidence interval clearly means that the science has received an "A".

Maybe if scientists would study more and work harder, they could finally get to 100% and get that A+.

Fortunately, most people are just fine with getting an A and don't worry too much that it wasn't an A+. It's a good thing too, or few peer-reviewed studies would even be published.

Except for Tiger Moms.

They want the confidence interval to be 100% every single time.