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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

At least if we're wrong, we know that we live in the remaining 5 % of parallel universes

[–] comrade19 15 points 1 year ago

But instagram conspiracy theorists will conclusively say 'WATCH THIS: floride is POISON. (follow link in bio)' Based on no study ever

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Haha as a statistician that's why we want to keep measuring the same thing over time. I appreciate ur confidence interval

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

50/50 chance, either it happens or it doesn't. Easy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

85% of statistics is made up 35% of the times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ah yes my love

the standard normal CDF as an approximation of the binomial distribution (so long as np(1-p) > 10)

[–] shadearg 2 points 1 year ago

That little guy? We don't worry about that little guy.

Usually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Math checks out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Probably.