I see this term float around the internet a lot but to this day the Google definitions have done nothing but confuse me further
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A lot of people frame it like “the simplest solution tends to be true.” imo this is less than ideal because then you have to explain what “simple” means.
“Aliens made the crop circles” is a simple sentence but it is not at all a simple explanation.
A better way to frame O.R. is to say “the explanation that requires the least amount of assumptions tends to be correct.”
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