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But even in academia, where supposedly "true science" is, if not done, at least pursued, uncertainty intervals are rarely, with respect to the times they would be needed, understood and used.

When I used to publish stats- and math-heavy papers in the biological sciences, very rarely the reviewers--and I used to publish in intermediate and up journals--were paying any attention to the quality of the predictions, beyond a casual look at the R2 or R2-equivalents and mean absolute errors.




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