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by danShumway 2506 days ago
This is somewhat eye opening to me, in the same way that Miller and Sunurjo's work was.

> In other words, selecting which part of the data to analyze based on information regarding where streaks are located within the data, restricts your choice, and changes the odds.[0]

I'm not particularly great at statistics, so I fall trap to a lot of these kinds of misconceptions. I appreciate articles like this getting shared, it's incredibly interesting.

[0]: https://jasoncollins.blog/2018/06/28/explaining-the-hoACt-ha...

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