{"id":264234,"date":"2020-08-11T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=264234"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:33:09","slug":"absence-of-evidence-isnt-evidence-of-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/11\/absence-of-evidence-isnt-evidence-of-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Absence of Evidence Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Evidence of Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has taken me almost 5 years to finally understand and realize and embody this aphorism by Nassim Taleb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Absence of evidence isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t evidence of absence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Just because you cannot see the evidence before your very eyes doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean the evidence doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There is always going to be hidden information and hidden facts which will always be unknowable to us, or hidden from us. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has taken me almost 5 years to finally understand and realize and embody this aphorism by Nassim Taleb: Absence of evidence isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t evidence of absence. In other words: Just because you cannot see \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E4B90165-C8C0-499F-B9F6-0CAE45EE3D8C.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264238,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264234\/revisions\/264238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}