It’s one of those phrases I just kinda nod my head and go “yeah” when I hear it. I’ve looked it up before, but the definition never stuck. Same thing happened with “survivorship bias,” but I eventually figured that one out.
I guess I need it explained in a different way for it to stick.
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Mutually exclusive means that things can’t be in both states of being at one time
Like you can’t have an apple and eat it and still have your apple it’s either not eaten or eaten.
Raw and cooked is another example, you can’t uncook something when it’s cooked and it’s no longer raw when you cook it so something can’t be both.
The simplest one is a on/off switch, a light can be on or off, even if the bulb is dim from low power it’s still “on”
But there can still be a transitional state in between these states it’s just that that particular states are exclusive to each other, so like the apple is being eaten is a transitional state
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