wedrifid comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong
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It's not climate science, it's mathematics. The probability of a specific number being the highest in a sequence goes down rapidly as the number of items increases. And it's not like the temperature is doubling every year, either.
Not so. It is not mathematics itself that assumes a neat random distribution. Your assertion is about climate science.