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If you had read the article you would have been informed that this publication is one in a long line of similar ones going back as far as 1920 who all came to s
by nosianu 5y ago
If you had read the article you would have been informed that this publication is one in a long line of similar ones going back as far as 1920 who all came to similar numbers.
You are right, if there was only this one paper it would be entirely unremarkable and informing the general public would be wrong. But that is not the case because the article fortunately does not limit itself to pointing to just that publication.
- SeanLuke 5y agoJust because everyone's seeing the same pattern in random data doesn't mean there's a pattern at all. For very good evolutionary reasons, humans are extraordinarily good pattern-recognition machines: we see ghosts in data when nothing exists. Our collective false positives are quite high.
- CRConrad 5y agoGoing back to about 1920, everyone saw canals on Mars, too.