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Bonferroni correction is an extremely conservative correction, which loses significance very quickly. Depending on the relation between the hypothesises, and the relative magnitude of the significance levels, much better methods are available, such as bootstrap step-downs.

But in general, it's good to make people aware how quickly you are doing multiple comparisons and how it invalidates the significance levels completely.

Corresponding xkcd, which really explains it brilliantly: http://xkcd.com/882/



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