dat_math [they/them]

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  • which is a relief.

    For me it’s the opposite. Suppose we go rockhounding hoping to find some opals, which we believe are quite rare for the location. We bring some small tools and survey an area of a few square feet near a creek, finding one opal.

    On our short hike back to the car, we spot a few mineral enthusiasts downstream of where we were digging with huge mechanical rigs set up to more effectively separate the rocks. They’re processing hundreds of thousands of pounds more material every day than our quaint hand tools can manage, so when we ask “did you find any opals” and they say “nope! not a one”,

    would we conclude it’s more likely that a) they’re churning through opals all day, but not looking for them or actively ignoring them when they find any or b) the opals are only in our tiny spot upstream ?