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As much as I like science, weak evidence can point only to further research avenues. Also, it's good to understand the limitations of the scientific process.
by kolinko 10y ago
As much as I like science, weak evidence can point only to further research avenues.
Also, it's good to understand the limitations of the scientific process.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoI have a feeling people think that evidence is a binary thing. It's not. Evidence is a floating point value. That is, you can formulate some hypothesis, and the job of evidence is to move probability mass around. I.e. when you have hypotheses A, B and C, each piece of evidence towards A makes you more sure of A, and less sure of B and C. Weak evidence towards A makes you weakly more sure of A, and weakly less sure of B and C. But it's still better than choosing based on a coin flip.