Eugine_Nier comments on The Statistician's Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 December 2013 05:02:54AM -1 points [-]

I suspect it's not so much the amount of data as the fact that the underlying causal structure tends to be much simpler.

With, e.g., biology you the problem of the Harvard law.