Facts are outside the realm of humans, unreachable. Humans can only have observations, hearsay, and opinions about what the facts are. That's why we have scient

Facts are outside the realm of humans, unreachable. Humans can only have observations, hearsay, and opinions about what the facts are. That's why we have scientific opinions and judicial opinions. A statistical analysis with a confidence interval or a p-value is a measurement of how strongly someone holds an opinion based on their observations.