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Stephen Beck Marcotte's avatar

Great article. I love how math simplifies things, by making reasonable assumptions.

In the applied sciences world, the multiple lines of evidence approach is preferred.

This is because nature is complicated and false positive or false negative results often “switch signs” with time.

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Aaron's avatar

Aren’t the explanations in the legend of the figure “Probability and set operations” swapped?

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