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Nerdy Blockbusters: Spider-Man: Replication

May 10, 2017Original blog post

Spider-Man's 'Spidey Sense' fails to replicate: no statistically significant effect.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-05-10-summer-blockbusters-from-a-nerdier-timeline--nerdy-blockbusters-spider-man-replication/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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SPIDERMAN: REPLICATION: "I'm sorry; the analysis found no statistically significant effect of 'Spidey Sense.'" Spider-Man: "But… earlier research found p < 0.01!"

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