Re: The Promise of Forth

Bruce McFarling wrote:
On Apr 2, 7:12 pm, John Doty <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You have no evidence that chance is involved here at all.

Its a null hypothesis. You don't need to be able to provide evidence
*for* a null hypothesis. Rather, it needs to be in terms that allows
evidence to be marshaled in an attempt at rejecting the null
hypothesis, to establish that there is something that requires
explanation.

At the very least, you need a quantitative statistical model that can be tested.

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