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Old 11-November-2007, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Warren Platts View Post
If it's a statistical law, there are always going to be the exceptions that prove the rule--that's what makes it statistical.
Exceptions do not prove rules, they disprove them, even in statistics. If the law is statistical, then "exceptions" will turn up with a low frequency, which can quantified and checked against observation. If the observed proportion is inconsistent with the theoretical predictions, then something is wrong.
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