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They give their hypothesis in the paper, and each is shown with a p value < 0.05, so is statistically significant (and better than just returning false :)

http://schererstefan.net/assets/files/scherer_etal_FG2013.pd...

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p values are a measure of the accuracy of the numbers. They are measuring how close the sample mean is to the population mean. In the case of the paper, the p values represent how close the sample mean of the head gaze, eye gaze, smile intensity and smile duration measurements are to the population means of the same values.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

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