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'Cherry tree from space' mystery baffles Japan
- gus_massa 13y agoFrom the article: > Tomita-Yokotani, a plant physiologist, said it was difficult to explain why the temple tree has grown so fast because there was no control group to compare its growth with that of other trees. The article says that this is a 4 year old tree and that “it normally takes about 10 years for a cherry tree of the similar variety to bear its first buds”. This is almost meaningless without more statistical data. What is the probability that a 4 years old tree has buds? 1%, 0.01%, 0.0001% or 5% . Is this really so strange?