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[1387823882] Representativeness

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I came up with this today.

You could say a theory is x% representative, which you get by dividing the number of cases where it works by the number of all possible cases.

For example, take a function F(a,b) which behaves as a logical OR. The theory that it behaves as a logical AND is then 50% representative: it works for (0,0) and (1,1) (2 cases) and fails for everything else (there being a total of 4 possible cases).
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