Seth Shostak - It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once...

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It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because 'typical' is just another way of saying 'most probable.'

Seth Shostak

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Dies ist die Standardvoraussetzung in der Wissenschaft: Wenn Sie nur einmal etwas in der Natur beobachten, gehen Sie davon aus, dass das, was Sie gesehen haben, typisch ist. Das ist so, weil "typisch" nur eine andere Möglichkeit ist, "höchstwahrscheinlich" zu sagen.

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