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Other side: https://www.science.org/content/article/unlucky-numbers-fighting-murder-convictions-rest-shoddy-stats https://www.science.org/content/article/unluck

Other side: https://www.science.org/content/article/unlucky-numbers-fighting-murder-convictions-rest-shoddy-stats https://www.science.org/content/article/unlucky-numbers-figh... Never mind a hunch - even a murder trial alleging that a nurse is killing patients may be based on nothing but bias, coincidence, and a poor knowledge of statistics.

turtleyacht 4y ago
> Gill has not always been a troublemaker. His career has been defined by long detours into the bowels of arcane mathematical problems. Injustice bothers him—but so does error. Thank-you. This motivates me to study statistics. A quantitative truth seeker is doing exactly what is needed, and he did not need to know enough about computers to hack them (for example).