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AAPG Bulletin; Year: 2015; Issue: December DOI: 10.1306/070615045
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Figure 3. Outcomes of acquiring new knowledge may be binary good/bad (A) or may fall on a continuous distribution (B). The inset in (B) represents a probability density function of the range of possible outcomes. A second piece of new knowledge may be independent of the first (C), or it may update and replace an existing piece of information (D).

Figure 3. Outcomes of acquiring new knowledge may be binary good/bad (A) or may fall on a continuous distribution (B). The inset in (B) represents a probability density function of the range of possible outcomes. A second piece of new knowledge may be independent of the first (C), or it may update and replace an existing piece of information (D).