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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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