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Comment author: thomblake 04 January 2012 07:04:10PM 2 points [-]

If someone posted an explanation of Pythagoras' theorem, I wouldn't upvote that either, however useful it is to middle school students.

And yet an explanation of Bayes' theorem gets referenced and linked commonly.

Comment author: drethelin 04 January 2012 11:00:23PM 0 points [-]

My standard for top level posts is a little higher than my standard for comments.

Comment author: thomblake 05 January 2012 02:47:43PM 0 points [-]

Actually the one I'm thinking of is an off-site article, but if it was here it would be a post to main. And there's a main post explaining the same thing, that was rather well-received.

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