I remind myself of Conservation of Expected Evidence most days I’m at work.
I’m an engineer, and it helps remind me that a data point can either support a hypothesis or that hypothesis’s opposite, but not both at once. This is especially useful for explaining things to non-technical people.
I remind myself of Conservation of Expected Evidence most days I’m at work.
I’m an engineer, and it helps remind me that a data point can either support a hypothesis or that hypothesis’s opposite, but not both at once. This is especially useful for explaining things to non-technical people.