Talk:892: Null Hypothesis

If you get a 50% discount at two shops and buy stuff from both of them, you have a 100% discount. Math. That's how it works, bitches. Davidy²²[talk] 10:05, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I would feel entirely justified punching someone who said that unironically. Pennpenn 108.162.249.205 00:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

I mean, if the two items cost the same, then you would technically get a 100% discount on one. Beanie (talk) 13:31, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

That's a misleading thing about percentages. Like this: Prices of coffee increase by 2% this year, then by 3% next year. That's a 1% increase between years, or a 50% increase between years (from 2 to 3). So which is it? 1 or 50? 141.101.98.240 08:26, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

It's a 50% increase and an increase of 1 percentage point. There's a difference between the two. 162.158.158.235 16:37, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

That's why they've invented the "base points" in financials, to denote the percentages of percentages. It's 1% absolute but 50bpp (base point percentage). 108.162.246.11 18:35, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Oh really. If you say it increased by 2% this year, then by 3% next year. It increased 3%. Unless you mean it will increase by 3% from LAST YEAR to NEXT YEAR. Then it really increased by 2% then .97%. But for this purpose let's throw that out and make it simple. It increased by 2% this year, and will increase by 3% next year. 50% isn't how much it increased, but how much the increase increased. That's called acceleration. The rate of increase per year is always 2 or 3%. So, 1% doesn't factor into this equation at all no matter how you do the math. The answer is 1.02*1.03. It increased by 5.06% over the last two years. 108.162.216.114 14:59, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Don't these discussion points belong in a different comic? Or perhaps the garbage? Except (1), he lol'd me. 108.162.219.58 21:23, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

They should be on 985: Percentage Points or 1102: Fastest-Growing --Pudder (talk) 11:35, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Every time I learn what the null hypothesis is, I forget about it by the next day. I guess my brain is trying to organize the information and it thinks the /dev/null/ folder would be a good place for it. 172.69.58.152 21:17, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Note that the Null Hypothesis is typically not "disproven". By the very nature of the kind of experiments the term is typically used in, there is generally still a chance that the Null Hypothesis us true. When that chance (expressed by likelihood of observation) is very low, we say we **reject** the Null Hypothesis, but we didn't disprove it. --176.199.209.149 05:15, 13 November 2025 (UTC)