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by geoalchimista 1490 days ago
All statistical inferences are estimates, and carry standard errors with them. What is your point?
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All measurements are estimates, but sometimes the errors look like "we have a machine that spits out 4 all the time" and other times they look like "I saw two people, but I can't rule out the possibility that I spontaneously hallucinated them."
These are not standard errors.