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01-06-2016 | Not the Last Word

Not the Last Word: Inigo Montoya and Statistical Significance

Author: Joseph Bernstein, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 6/2016

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In Rob Reiner’s classic film, The Princess Bride, Vezzini the Sicilian, Fezzik the giant, and Inigo Montoya have abducted the Princess, but the Man in Black is in hot pursuit and making great gains. Each time Inigo reports to Vezzini that the Man in Black is getting closer, Vezzini replies, “Inconceivable!” Finally, after about the fifth exchange between the two, Inigo replies in exasperation, “You keep using that word—I do not think it means what you think it means.” …

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Title: Not the Last Word: Inigo Montoya and Statistical Significance
Author: Joseph Bernstein, MD
Publication date: 01-06-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 6/2016
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-016-4814-3

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