gipec

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   by gipec 8y ago

   The null hypothesis is like the empty set: there's no claims inside it. The negation of a claim is another claim independent of the first. Suppose I show you a jar containing a large number of coins and I claim the number of coins is e
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   by gipec 8y ago

   I didn't claim it's an asteroid. What I said, actually, is that any hypothesis asserted without evidence, and the autor of the post affirms that we have no evidence for the claim that it is an alien probe, can be dismissed without
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   by gipec 8y ago

   The one making the claim has the burden of proof. And following Hitchen's Razor: What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. Saying that is an alien probe it's not an argument, just an untested hypoth