[Quix]

Having had a TOP SECRET CRYPTO Navy Radioman security clearance, I can assure you that SOME things CAN be kept secret.

But, the record shows that there have been thousands of leaks. And they are increasingly coming into the public record with signed affidavits etc.

In scientific research with a null hypothesis, the statistics are calculated that the results are due to X.XXX% to chance or not.

In essence--the resulting stat asserts that SOMETHING is THERE vs NOTHING is there. . . . whatever the hypothesis was about.

1.000 reliability asserts that there's one chance in 1,000 that the found results of the study could have occurred by chance assuming the design and stats were all kosher and solid.

So, if you say SOMETHING'S THERE but there really isn't--that's a Type I error.

To say NOTHING'S THERE but there really IS SOMETHING there--would be a TYPE II error.

Tin-foil hat flingers seem to be addicted to a HUGE BIAS for risking a TYPE I error instead of a TYPE II error.

[LibKill]

Thanks for the elucidation.

If and when alien contact is proved, no one will be better pleased than I.