More damningly, it said that India's rise to the top of the Test rankings had been a result of a "statistical sleight of hand".

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We expanded this year's list to include the 200 largest metro areas, up from 150, thanks to Uncle Sam's reconfiguration of metropolitan statistical areas--which had the odd result of splitting regions like Raleigh-Durham into two.

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The statistical analysis showed that this difference this difference had a p-value of 0.04, a result the authors considered significant.

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The bad news: The new Genentech test did not reach statistical significance, meaning that it does not pass a mathematical litmus test to prove beyond a doubt that the result was not based on chance.

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