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To: rightwingcrazy

Either something is measurable, repeatable, and testable or it’s B.S. unless it’s a guess at something that happened previously (creationism, evolution, continental drift).

But only that which can be measured matters IMHO.


16 posted on 05/26/2021 8:47:39 AM PDT by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: RedStateRocker
Either something is measurable, repeatable, and testable or it’s B.S

Nothing can be measured perfectly, and therefore no experiment is perfectly repeatable, except within the limits of experimental error. Sometimes experiments, or tests, only produce meaningful results as the average of many trials.

22 posted on 05/26/2021 8:57:04 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: RedStateRocker
Either something is measurable, repeatable, and testable or it’s B.S.

You really do not want to go there...most of science gets flushed down the toilet kinda fast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg

The link is Rupert Sheldrake's banned Ted Talk "The Science Delusion" where he talks (among other things) about scientific "laws" that have a nasty habit of changing over time and scientific "constants" that turn out not to be constant.
35 posted on 05/26/2021 9:35:31 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: RedStateRocker
I can't really measure why I like bacon much more than broccoli, but I know that I do and that matters a lot to me.

If I ever ordered a bacon cheeseburger and found that it had broccoli in it where the bacon ought to be I would be sorely disappointed.

36 posted on 05/26/2021 9:35:40 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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