Re:Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published
by pjc50 on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:29AM
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This is commonly called the "gish gallop" - it's much easier to generate falsehood than refute it.
Worse, because of the way confidence intervals work, if you generate enough bad hypotheses and run experiments, eventually you find one where it appears to be true!
Worse, because of the way confidence intervals work, if you generate enough bad hypotheses and run experiments, eventually you find one where it appears to be true!