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by 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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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.
Sure, but that’s not what we are talking about
Really? Laws of probability works against your argument.

Such a basic course in statistics needs to be scrutinized.