A doctor wants to know the probability that an infection will occur after performing a particular procedure. In order to calculate this probability he checks medical records and finds that a total of 3,500 of these procedures were conducted in the past year and there were infections following 8 of these procedures. He calculates the probability as 8/3,500 or 0.2%

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A doctor wants to know the probability that an infection will occur after performing a particular procedure. In order to calculate this probability he checks medical records and finds that a total of 3,500 of these procedures were conducted in the past year and there were infections following 8 of these procedures. He calculates the probability as 8/3,500 or 0.2%. This is an example of subjective???

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