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takeoutweight on June 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no...

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Paradigma11 on June 8, 2012 [–]

But it is, at least from a bayesian perspective.

dbecker on June 8, 2012 | [–]

Not at all.

Even from a Bayesian perspective, having a small sample that is too small to reach strong conclusions does not shift your posterior towards 0.

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