Ev­i­dence of Absence

Evidence of absence is evidence that allows you to conclude some phenomenon isn’t there. It is often said that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. However, if evidence is expected, but not present, that is evidence of absence.

Blog posts

• Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence

• Conservation of Expected Evidence

External links

• Absence of evidence is evidence of absence by Kim Øyhus

• Absence of evidence… at Logbase2

See also

• Bayes’ theorem

• Evidence

• Fallacy of gray

• Motivated cognition