Rex Kerr
Nov 11, 2023

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This one is extraordinarily weak evidence.

The pictures are nice, but the statistics are rubbish. Galaxies are distributed in a sorta-filamentous structure, which means that assuming a Poisson distribution isn't correct whenever there are more than two observations, and, oops!...the only surprising statistics are for when there are more.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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