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Re:Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values by jsprogrammer on Sunday November 29, 2015 @04:36AM (#10644238)
Counting positive observations vs. total observations is a formality rather than intuition? The formality is the axioms of probability. The intuition is that you make a theory and measure how many predictions it gets right.
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Re:Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values by omginternets on Monday November 30, 2015 @10:38AM (#10649890)
It's all relative, as they say.
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