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IN his article on The Meaning of Probability in NATURE of September 14, Dr. Dingle has attempted to support his case by means of a striking example. Unfortunately his illustration is by no means happily chosen, and the issue may be further confused by his treatment of it in a way no one is likely to defend. When the truth (by which we do not mean the whole truth and nothing but the truth) of Ohm's law is in question, only evidence arising from experimental investigations is pertinent; no statement, independent of experimental work, by any individual, whatever his habit regarding the truth, is of value. On the data given, the probability that the law will be found to hold in a new experiment is therefore 9,999/10,000.
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SMITH, T. The Meaning of Probability. Nature 136, 604 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136604c0
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