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In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills

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Re: In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills

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here's the outline (1) version without paywall https://outline.com/HrWjwE (1)

This is about caviar prices.

Clicking to confirm made me laugh uncontrollably in a quiet office. It is indeed an article about caviar prices

Re: In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in skills

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It could be that my memory of hypothesis testing is outdated, but being 1 standard deviation away from the mean isn't evidence of a significant difference in skills.

Except that this isn't hypothesis testing. The graphs are not clearly labelled, but I'm interpreting the results as indicating that the entire population is shifted. This would be a significant advantage.

(If it was hypothesis testing, 1 sigma could be statistically significant depending on sample size. You might be confusing the population variance with the sample mean variance.)

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