io9.com: 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing

The following blurb from number seven is what piques my interest1 (emphasis mine):

“Statistically significant” is one of those phrases scientists would love to have a chance to take back and rename. “Significant” suggests importance; but the test of statistical significance, developed by the British statistician R.A. Fisher, doesn’t measure the importance or size of an effect; only whether we are able to distinguish it, using our keenest statistical tools, from zero. “Statistically noticeable” or “Statistically discernible” would be much better.
Jordan Ellenberg, Mathematician

Saving that one for next January.

1. and also feeds into my opening day spiel that Statistics is really more of a science class than a math class. [↩]