Thursday Throughput: Finding the Missing Black Holes

Michael Siegel

Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.

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3 Responses

  1. Oscar Gordon says:

    ThTh5: Isn’t this also the case when most of your positive test results are from people with the most severe symptoms?Report

  2. George Turner says:

    ThTh5. The paper never explains what collider bias is. It says “(sometimes referred to as selection bias, sampling bias, ascertainment bias)”. I assume it refers to the way someone in a collision makes a very poor eye-witness because they have trouble ascertaining what actually occurred, due to the shock of what happened to them. But it might instead refer to some weird aspect of quantum interactions that occur in a particle collider.Report

  3. ThTh3: Between the time-lapse photography and the RV there’s a definite Breaking Bad vibe.Report