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Heat flowing into a thermodynamic system (top) provides energy that can be converted to work. Temperature offers an absolute measure of the system’s energy. An analogous system (bottom) might provide a consistent way to measure strength of evidence provided by statistical data. E, a measure of “evidential energy,” would quantify the amount of evidential work that statistical data supply.
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