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It's just a thought experiment meant to highlight a common fallacy in how people think about p-values.
by pontus 6y ago
It's just a thought experiment meant to highlight a common fallacy in how people think about p-values.
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- throwaway2245 6y agoI find it fallacious to see this as a criticism of p-values. If I wanted to identify whether a particular coin was the [most] biased out of 10^1000, flipping one coin 10 times isn't a reasonable setup for the experiment. And, my conclusion to your hypothetical experiment would be: the person who told me that there was a 99.9...% chance this coin was fair was likely incorrect about that.