Its more of a religious reason... Hinduism believes that the soul and body are separate ... While some other religions believe that the soul and body are doubles ... if the body is hurt, the soul is hurt ...
DEFINITION of 'Confidence Interval'. A term used in inferential statistics that measures the probability that a population parameter will fall between two set values. The confidence interval can take any number of probabilities, with the most common being 95% or 99%. Next Up.
A 95% Confidence Interval of a Mean is the interval that has a 95% chance of containing the true population mean. The width of a Confidence Interval is affected by the sample size. The larger the sample size, the more accurate and tighter is the estimate of the true population mean.