A thing that someone pointed out to me that now irritates me greatly: "No evidence for foo" is used to say both "foo is false" and "we don't know if foo is true yet".
1 year ago · 👍 martin, lykso
@lykso we must have read the same article, because I got the same source too. Should be Astral Codex Ten. · 1 year ago
Saw a post yesterday stating that this line ought to be considered poor science communication, and that it is usually used when one of three things is actually meant:
1) Absence of evidence
2) Evidence of absence
3) The idea is absurd on its face
Can't find the post now, though, or I'd have linked it. · 1 year ago