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Law of large numbers applied to psychological wounds
The law of large numbers basically says that the more instances, the more diluted weird strings of improbable events become relative to the whole—not by removing or balancing.... And i like this Jordan ellenberg quote from
How not to be wrong
In part, the replicability crisis is simply a reflection of the fact that science is hard and that most ideas we have are wrong.
oh interesting yeah tommys shitpost has a -41 but everything else is either 0 or 1… we may need a normalization
Seems like some differentiation between polls hints at this; but how bad is the problem? Do we need to solve it? Not sure… need more data…