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I think perhaps you're missing the point. Even if you run the number to 1000, or even 10,000, you're eventually going to get outliers. In the real world, precis
by vannevar 16y ago
I think perhaps you're missing the point. Even if you run the number to 1000, or even 10,000, you're eventually going to get outliers. In the real world, precisely because most people have no understanding of statistics, significant public policy decisions with real impact on people's lives would be made on the basis of events that happened merely by chance. Cancer clusters for instance trigger all kinds of legal action and political grandstanding, yet such outliers are statistically inevitable.