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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Postgrad Med. 2017 Sep 27;129(8):902–906. doi: 10.1080/00325481.2017.1383820

Figure 2:

Figure 2:

As the number of comparisons increases, the alpha error rate increases; running 20 comparisons with no correction factor and a significance level set at 0.05 will result in 64% chance of a relationship appearing to be significant (better than 50/50 odds).