probabils

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   by probabils 7y ago

   Alibaba? They have a bunch of X-ray machines, the smallest one: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Arrival-Portable-...
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   by probabils 7y ago

   How can it get an image without a detector or something on the other side of the object? Is it just capturing reflected back x-rays?
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   by probabils 7y ago

   Well, if this stuff was easy to understand, we wouldn't be having a crisis because of it, would we? Probability is highly non-intuitive (kind of like quantum mechanics), so most people (including scientists) don't understand it an
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   by probabils 7y ago

   Yes, it answers your question. What you call "p-value" is a sample from the "p-value distribution" of your experiment. Taleb shows you can sample a p-value of 0.05 when the actual "true" p-value is 0.12.
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   by probabils 7y ago

   Nasim Taleb wrote extensively on this. > P-values are shown to be extremely skewed and volatile, regardless of the sample size n, and vary greatly across repetitions of exactly same protocols under identical stochastic copies of the phe