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Current methods are not 100% accurate either. No study is 100%.

Honestly the only field that has a P value that comes close to 100% is physics. Even medicine which is far more rigorous than most fields fails quite often in phase 3 trials after having vetted it in phase 2.

Even physics is nowhere close to “100% accurate.” Most fields of physics approximate many body problems that are infeasible to compute, let alone fully specify. E.g. Astrophysics, solid state physics, nuclear physics, etc. Practitioners regularly use empirically measured parameters like cross-sectional scattering areas, and those parameters are updated and narrowed over time.

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