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Re:South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, I... by willis936 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:00AM (#26769681)
Not at all. A bad situation does not mean its okay or even beneficial to abandon statistics or the scientific method to scare people.

Publish when there’s data worth talking about. Keep it to yourself if it’s underbaked.

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Re:South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, I... by radu_floricica on Sunday April 11, 2021 @11:54AM (#26771209)
If everybody "kept it to themselves" until every i was dotted and t was crossed, we'd all be dead.

This is not about being rushed. This is about a paradigm already existing that's both better than the scientific method, and ok to use with incomplete information. Bayes. We aren't in the 1700s any more :) the scientific method is pretty cool, but it hasn't been cutting edge for a long time.

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Re:South African variant can break through Pfizer vaccine, I... by willis936 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @04:31PM (#26773131)
Overestimating information is not due to a lack of understanding statistics.

It’s truly awful to take Bayes’ namewhen arguing against the very notion of statistical significance.

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