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Take away: ...in any sufficiently large set of random data it is possible to find meaningless patterns of any required accuracy.
by niyazpk 17y ago
Take away:
...in any sufficiently large set of random data it is possible to find meaningless patterns of any required accuracy.
- patio11 17y agoStop giving away our secrets! -- social science (Seriously though, this is issue keeps me up at night, since I test so often. The only thing that gets me back to sleep is that I figure that even if I call a test wrongly every once and a while, the bottom line number seems to be moving in mostly the right direction, so it should come out in the wash.)
- msluyter 17y agoYep. It's "The Bible Code" all over again.
- teamonkey 17y agoI remember reading a fantastic in-depth analysis of one of the Harry Potter books in the same style as the Bible Code. IIRC it predicted all sorts of real-world events. (It wasn't a serious analysis, it was to debunk the Bible Code.) I can't find it now, but then it must have been about 7 or 8 years ago.