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Title:
Bayes' Theorem and the Real SETI Equation
Authors:
Wilson, T. L.
Publication:
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, NO.4/DEC, P.435, 1984
Publication Date:
12/1984
Origin:
KNUDSEN
Bibliographic Code:
1984QJRAS..25..435W

Abstract

The anthropomorphic assumption that because our own society uses electromagnetic radiation (based upon Maxwell's equations) then so do others as advanced as ourselves, is averted. The assumption that extraterrestrial intelligence exists a priori is likewise averted by use of the conditional probability.

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