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by ninetyninenine 614 days ago
Well both are statements that can be true or false.

I would say in physics it's also a population parameter. It's just sometimes we feel so confident about a single observation that we only need to take 1 sample.

>You may disagree, but I see statistics as a science, akin to physics

I don't disagree. This has been my entire point. I define statistics as the foundational formal definition of the scientific method.