gwern comments on Open thread, Feb. 9 - Feb. 15, 2015 - Less Wrong
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Confidence levels inside and outside an argument: in doing a quick analysis of the veracity of a database leak, is the probability of a particular test coming out as it did 0.00000000019323% or... 90%?
Well, that will depend on how true your assumption of independent samples is! See