This likelihood would have had to have been intuited from sample size and percentage information, which, in a binomial distribution, determines variance. However, it is premature to posit that laypeople adjust the extent to which they weight sample size on the basis of the likelihood that ...
14 Eusebius’s work, however, was even more degen-erate than Origen’s, relying as it did upon the insight that numbers can symbolically stand in for discrete units of discourse, a technique virtually impossible with oral communication. This, Kelber boldly asserts, represents the ‘mathemati...