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ziofill
3 hours ago
A direction that is 99.99% accurate survives this argument completely. For all practical purposes one does not need totality.
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voxl
1 hour ago
A basic course in statistics will inform you of why a 99.99% accurate test should be looked at with skepticism when diagnosing a rare disease. Yet we see the fancy 9s and think somehow this many 9s is enough.
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ziofill
1 hour ago
Sure, but that’s not what we are talking about
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elendilm
32 minutes ago
Really? Laws of probability works against your argument.
Such a basic course in statistics needs to be scrutinized.
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