This is the rationale behind stuff like p values and t tests. If you can’t prove something is true you gotta give the odds of it being true vs just being a coincidence. This creates its own set of problems and misleading statistics and sometimes it’s better to just say “close enough, I reject that hypothesis”
This is the rationale behind stuff like p values and t tests. If you can’t prove something is true you gotta give the odds of it being true vs just being a coincidence.
This creates its own set of problems and misleading statistics and sometimes it’s better to just say “close enough, I reject that hypothesis”