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Re:Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Di... by sobriquet9 on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @08:57AM (#40856194)
One counterexample may be sufficient to disprove a hypothesis. If you claim a certain quadratic equation has no roots and I give you one root, you can’t say “n=1”.
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Re:Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Di... by Retric on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @09:04AM (#40856248)
It is a strong datapoint, but he may be using meaningfully different weapons / ammo compared to seals.

Math avoids this kind of uncertainty.

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Re:Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Di... by sobriquet9 on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @11:55AM (#40857870)
The guns are different, but primers are mostly the same.
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Re:Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Di... by tux3 on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @09:06AM (#40856267)
Claims about populations in medicine are not very much like math theorems. There are too many exceptions for a single case study to settle the question.
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Re:Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Di... by kragen on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @09:14AM (#40856322)
i don't think that is true of lead poisoning
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