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> Extraordinary claims require proportional evidence Extraornidary being proportional to itself, it seems you actually agree.
by Voloskaya 6y ago
> Extraordinary claims require proportional evidence
Extraornidary being proportional to itself, it seems you actually agree.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoIt's more that the word "extraordinary" seems to be used as an excuse to dismiss perfectly valid evidence of interesting and unusual events because the evidence isn't "extraordinary" enough. There is no SI unit for extraordinariness [1], so these assessments are rhetorical and subjective, not scientific. [1] Not to be confused with statistical significance, which happens at a later stage in investigations.
- guerrilla 6y agoThen you don't mean proportional and you mean something else like sufficient or something.