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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by idlewords on Friday June 16, 2023 @03:56PM (#36362929)
Randomly sifting through data in search of patterns is not an experiment in the usual sense. With a big enough data set, you're guaranteed to find one in a billion, one in a trillion events by random chance.
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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by s1artibartfast on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:00PM (#36362996)
Yes, but you can test those signals against future data and see if they are accurate.
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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by admax88qqq on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:00PM (#36362993)
Finding correlations is not the same as finding one in a trillion events.
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Re:Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to ... by kbelder on Friday June 16, 2023 @05:23PM (#36364096)
When you have a trillion possible correlations, it is.
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