[ExI] Garbage In Garbage Out

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 2:34 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Your example is a different kind of problem and bears no relevance to
> the Chinese bullshit theorem.


Actually, it does.  He's pointing out that you're using inapplicable
statistics.

You're using the probability that it was a given city to substitute for the
possibility that it could have been a city at all, versus the probability
that it was a given lab as the possibility that it was a lab at all.
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