When we say something is statistically significant what does that mean?
In: Mathematics
Simply put: something is statistically significant when you can be more certain than not that the result actually represents reality, and wasn’t just unlucky coincidence.
Imagine I have a ball pit. Exactly one of every three balls is red, the rest blue.
If I pull out balls at random I might very well be unlucky and pull out 6 red balls in a row. This might lead me to the false conclusion that *all* the balls in the ball pit are red. If I pull out enough balls however, the ratio starts to balance, and I’ll end up with a *roughly* 1:3 ratio. That’s when I’ve a statistically significant result, because the odds I have an outlier becomes very small.
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