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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Mutual exclusivity means two things which cannot happen or be true at the same time. The implication of this is also that if one of the the thing has happened, the other did not happen.
People misuse this term all the time to mean “these two things are unrelated or don’t affect each other”, which is a wrong way to use the term.
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