It would be better to make the use of approximation explicit, and to specify the domain in which the approximation is a good one, like “don’t forget probability of accident per second is multiplied by time to get approximate total probability, given small total probability”.
No no, I am saying I erred outright. I simply used a heuristic and forgot it was a heuristic. You corrected me. That’s why I had not identified it as an approximation initially. But that said, I find the correction to make the reader’s task difficult, and my heuristic retains approximate validity, so I pointed that out in my reply.
It would be better to make the use of approximation explicit, and to specify the domain in which the approximation is a good one, like “don’t forget probability of accident per second is multiplied by time to get approximate total probability, given small total probability”.
No no, I am saying I erred outright. I simply used a heuristic and forgot it was a heuristic. You corrected me. That’s why I had not identified it as an approximation initially. But that said, I find the correction to make the reader’s task difficult, and my heuristic retains approximate validity, so I pointed that out in my reply.