Comments on: “No Evidence” and Breach Notice

By: Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:52:11 +0000

Excellent site, keep up the good work

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:18:49 +0000

Here is more on "absence of evidence" in support of Dan's comment: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2007/08/the_bayes_who_w.html. Pete

By: Dan Weber

Dan Weber — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:47:21 +0000

As anyone trained in any science knows, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I disagree. Absence of evidence is most assuredly evidence of absence.
However, absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Evidence isn’t absolute. Each side in a court case can have evidence and one piece evidence can directly contradict another piece.
If I look in my backyard for a silver dollar and don’t find one, that is evidence towards the fact that one isn’t there. It’s not proof, of course.

By: tim

tim — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:24:15 +0000

Living in MN I’ve been following this with amusement.
In this type of simple absurd case when there is a statement of “no evidence…” – the automatic assumption that should be made is that frak’n data been breached. But most cases aren’t as clear cut or as simple as this and quality of records is all across the board.
(didn’t vote for either franken or coleman so I am extra amused by all this)