Alan Turing and the Five Sigma Theory of Progress
Category: SCIENCE
The brutal flip side of this reductionist idea is the implication that if you're not at the five sigma level, your efforts, while admirable and even useful, will never be fodder for future memory or future textbooks -- that most of us are no more than worker bees.
By Seth Shostak, ContributorSenior Astronomer, SETI Institute, 2014-12-08