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by estsauver 481 days ago
This "you have to choose D" ahead of time nonsense is why people distrust and dislike statisticians! Humans have priors on what is "close" that are independent of this particular article. If they had said "See, everything within 5000m" or "everything within 5m" you might have a point but "500m" being a rough definition of "close to a train station" is pretty reasonable.
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> If they had said "See, everything within 5000m" or "everything within 5m" you might have a point

On the contrary, if everything was within five meters, that would make the finding much more impressive.