Sunday, September 8, 2019

Peterson's Second Law

Low probabilities tend towards non-indendence, often just enough to get you into deep trouble.

Stated differently: Variables generally tend towards non-independence.  This means that outliers in one variable tend to be outliers in others.  Likewise, with means.

As a result, the assignment of causality favors the variable estimated with the greatest positive bias.

We see what we want to see, through science or not.


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