Were you not here for the time this happened a thousand years ago or something?
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I can't tell if you're joking or not. Statistical methods can be used to estimate the frequency of infrequent events with observations
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not for rare events when the underlying system is changing
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Going from blatant lies to something that might be true is progress at the WaPo.
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Is there a word like 'innumeracy' which means 'doesn't understand statistics' ?
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yes, innumeracy
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True but even if wrong it's a useful way to illustrate relative magnitude. Compare using Richter scale when most don't understand log.
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Many ppl think a mag 6.0 earthquake is just marginally bigger than a 5.0 even w/ "order of magnitude" concept literally in the name.
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You'll have to check back in 1000 years to see if they're wrong
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