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Re:Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary by Koshkin on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:59PM (#18566813)
> it’s not clear what fraction

But see https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/03/30/statistical-rule-o..., which has been discussed on HN not long ago.

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Re:Chaos Makes the Multiverse Unnecessary by whatshisface on Friday November 30, 2018 @07:23AM (#18568568)
That rule tells you how likely you are to see one thing given N observations, but what we don't know is how many things there are.
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