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For questions about teaching students at the undergraduate (university) level.

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Is there a simple example that empirical evidence is misleading?

There is an old joke describing how various scientific disciplines "prove" that all odd numbers are prime. The part for mathematicians goes 1 is a special case, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, …
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