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I think of pretty much everything I learned as a scientist, the one fact I probably make the most use out of in daily life is that the Fisher information of independent experiments simply adds.

That's somewhat of a joke, but also somewhat serious: it's how you get things like that you need quadratically many samples of a binomial distribution with the error you want to achieve — a fact that on its own dramatically changes how I read the news.

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