• jemorgan@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    How weird. My sample size is now 2, I think I’m ready to draw a conclusion and only consider evidence that confirms it going forward.

    • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      That reminds me how my father loves to tell the story of a doctor who wasn’t convinced that sun causes skin cancer so he went to India for a year and didn’t wear sunscreen once and lo and behold he didn’t get cancer so he disproved that sun causes cancer.

      Again, my dad is a mathematician. Granted, analytical and computer algebra, not statistics, but dear Lord.