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The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)

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The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere: a surprising statistical illusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20665234 - Aug 2019 (4 comments)

Inspection Paradox (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18342560 - Oct 2018 (13 comments)

twic

One i noticed when working with star catalogue data decades ago: most stars are in binary (or higher) systems. But most star systems are single!

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The link to the “new version” 404s, but this is probably a copy of it: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/the-inspection-parad...

Also, this relates to renewal theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewal_theory#Inspection_para...