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If you're willing to entertain that many hypotheses, you need a huge amount of data to not be fooled by noise. For instance, there might be 1B hypotheses of the
by tlb 7y ago
If you're willing to entertain that many hypotheses, you need a huge amount of data to not be fooled by noise. For instance, there might be 1B hypotheses of the form "temperature in some town is correlated with the price of some stock". You'd need p<0.000000001 to not have false positives. Even the stock market doesn't have enough data for that.
- emmelaich 7y agoMy objection is to the absoluteness of the phrase > A person would know that the two events have no connection. When a negative statement like this is presented as absolute and categorical it's very easy to disagree with it.