Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote (Jkrebs @ Mar. 20 2008,22:32) | | And I am particularly interested in how to counter the typical creationist idea that calculating simple combinations means something. I teach simple stats to high school students, and even there we talk about probability trees and conditional probability. The fact that these guys don't understand that figuring the probability of a chain of events is vastly harder and much more realistic than simple combinations is beyond me. |
Howard Van Till certainly laid the issue out clearly in his 2002 review of No Free Lunch.
See pages 17 - 19 here.
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Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace
"Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down."
- Barry Arrington
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