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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Interesting, but horribly misguided!
This treatise is not about science, it is about statistics.
Actual science deals with physical reality and mathematics. Statistics can be very misleading. The average of 1 and 3 is 2. The problem is there is NO 2 in the sample.


7 posted on 04/18/2016 6:53:47 AM PDT by BillM (.)
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You overlook the fact that all experimental (and observational) science, even particle physics, uses statistics as a filter — of course unlike the social sciences where being 1.96 standard deviations away from the means is “enough”, particle physicists want 5 standard deviations. And remember, experimental (and observational) science is supposed to be the reality check for scientific theories — if you’re not matching experiments or observations from the real world, you’re working in my area, mathematics, not one of the sciences (whether natural or social) properly so called.


13 posted on 04/18/2016 9:23:17 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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