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RE: A final song for OPERA: 6 years of neutrino data, nice events and an exemplary open data policy
By unambiguous, I quantitatively mean that the probability we have no signal and some background fluctuation instead is 0.0000000004
Biologists are lucky if they get a P value of 0.05 :P
I answered the very same comment a bit further above. Fundamental physics is extremely picky, and probably one of the most picky science. But of course the level of pickiness is relative to the experimental context, how experiments can be built, etc... I can easily imagine that in biology, 0.05 is already not easy to get. FYI, we use 0.05 to exclude hypotheses, but not for discoveries (where we ask for more).