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Can I remind you of Hanlon's razor? "Never attribute to malice that
which can adequately be explained by stupidity?"
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Often more useful.

-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-admin@trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-admin@trauma.org]
On Behalf Of DocRickFry@aol.com
Sent: 02 October 2002 11:07
To: trauma-list@trauma.org
Subject: Re: Occam's razor (Was: Where's the haemorrhage?)

In a message dated 10/1/2002 10:37:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jmeade@statdoc.com writes:

The commonly accepted definition of Occam=92s Razor is that one should =
not
increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to
explain anything. In other words, if one disease entity explains the
symptom complex, don=92t dream up two diseases that happen to coexist.

Occam's razor is, in fact, exactly what Occam said--
"The simplest explanation for an event is usually the correct one"
Your elaboration above is certainly a good explanation of that tenet,
ERF=20

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