You bring up a reason which is claimed to be the necessity for this "cutoff": opponents of a given theory often claim "But the odds are not zero", no matter how miniscule those odds may be.
Zero? No. But does that mean that any such odds > 0 could indeed happen? Not necessarily. By the...
The study started out with a string of 347 black and white beads, supposedly put on the string in random order, which equated to a well known quote. The odds of this happening in anyone instance was quoted as being Prandom chance = 2-347 = 2.8669 x 10-104 and then was followed by (quoted here...
I have been listening to a teacher that frequently uses examples of probability. He made the comment in one session that in science, it was determined that anything greater than 1050 is considered absurd, but that he could not remember what ‘law’ or person that relates to this. Does anyone...