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The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
by Takennickname 3y ago
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
- pugio 3y agoTruisms aside, in many cases the absence of a thing which one would expect to see is in fact a support for alternate hypotheses. ie. "Given a world X is true, I would expect to see Y. Since I don't see Y, that's at least weak evidence that X may not be true." There are of course plenty of other reasons why you wouldn't see Y, but it's at least some kind of signal.