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If a park ranger said "I looked over the first 2% of the park and concluded there's no mountain lions" - that is, made an assessment on the whole from inspectio
by johnfn 1y ago
If a park ranger said "I looked over the first 2% of the park and concluded there's no mountain lions" - that is, made an assessment on the whole from inspection of a narrow segment - I don't think I would take his word on the matter. If OP had more experience to support his statement, he should have included it, rather than writing a shallow, one-sentence dismissal.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoI think the recently popular way of saying "I looked over 2% and assumed it generalizes" these days is to call the thing ergodic. Which of course the blog article is not, but then at least the complaint wouldn't sound so obviously shallow.
- johnfn 1y agoThat's great, I'm definitely going to roll that into my vocabulary.