| ▲ | Balgair 4 hours ago | |
Especially in something as squishy as biology. A field famous for withholding any kind of certainty. Sure, DNA seems like something that is 'real' and 'grounded', but once you get into the specifics of even sample collection and handling, those little errors in the Gaussian distributions start adding up (in quadrature!) and it is surprising how fast the error bars end up swamping any kind of knowledge. | ||