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Another important consideration of confidence intervals is that they
\emph{are only about the population parameter}. A confidence
interval says nothing about individual observations, a proportion of the
observations, or point estimates. Confidence intervals only provide a
plausible range for population parameters, at a given confidence
level.
population parameters.
I really like the essence of the following summary, but the image of CIs actively capturing something is a bit odd to me.
https://github.com/OpenIntroOrg/openintro-statistics/blob/ecad440aa2922a5dd8a4fd7eaa9cf577e26fd119/ch_foundations_for_inf/TeX/ch_foundations_for_inf.tex#L1088-L1093
I propose the following alternative wording: