Lumifer comments on The best 15 words - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 03 October 2013 03:07:48PM 3 points [-]

This goes away only in the limit as the sample size goes to infinity.

For a finite sample size (and given a certain set of assumptions) you can establish a range of values within which you believe "true" correlation resides, but this range will never contract to a single point.