"[...] practically nobody took very seriously the CDF claim (not even most
members of the collaboration, and I know several of them), while practically everybody is
now convinced that the Higgs boson has been finally caught at CERN – no matter if
the so called ‘statistical significance’ is more ore less the same in both cases"


G. D'Agostini, "Probably a discovery", arxiv:1112.3620

Note: by using some sort of probability inversion, I will claim based on the above that according to Prof. D'Agostini, Prof. Matt Strassler is "practically nobody", since he is not convinced... ;-)

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