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SignificanceAn event, action, individual, or discovery is often regarded as significant when it enables or causes other changes.Journalists, historians, scientists and many others often seek to explain why an event is significant. The question is: does the event being examined affect the "big picture"?
In statistics, significance refers to whether a result is extreme enough to be unlikely to have arisen by chance. For details, see the entry for statistical significance. See also: Significant figure He now took the kettle into
from a butternut tree. Water was added, and the whole boiled
it into a flat dish, then said to Rolf: "Come now, I make you a
hands were all at first intended, but Rolf said, "May as well do
his white skin turned it a rich copper colour, and he was. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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