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> [ What the use of P \[the significance level\] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-jeffreys/what-the-use-of-p-the-significance-level-implies-therefore-is-that-a/)

[Harold Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-jeffreys/)

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