Version history — Inspection Paradox¶

Current edition: v2 · 2026-10-24 · prime abstraction

Editions¶

Version	Date	Change	What changed
v2	2026-10-24	Corrected the astronomy example. A flux-limited survey does not weight objects by their luminosity: an object is seen if it lies within the volume where it clears the flux limit, and for objects spread evenly through space that volume grows as the 3/2 power of luminosity. Malmquist bias is therefore a power-law variant of the length weighting rather than another case of the same E[L²]/E[L] bias, and the correction divides by that visibility volume rather than by luminosity.	prose — detailed body (prose edited)
v1	2026-08-24	First published edition.	first published edition

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