Eli5 Occam’s Razor
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Heres a practical example:
You want to find out how fast sea roses spread on a water surface. You plant 1 rose on day 1. On day 2, there are already 2 roses, on day 3, there are 4 roses, on day 4, there are 8 roses.
Now you think about general rules that would explain this:
1.
The sea roses double every day.
2. The sea roses randomly change their numbers, and it just happened to be like this.
3. The sea roses doubles for the first days, but at some point it will triple each day.
4. The sea roses dont spread at all and some maniac just plants more at night.
All of them are possible, but one is simple and easy to test. The others can still be correct, but when many hypothesis can be right, the simplest one is easiest to work with. Thats occams razor and its meant to “protect” you from finding more complex than necessary hypotheses.
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