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Found this article and enjoyed it. Thought others here might too.

https://io9.com/10-scientific-ideas-that-scientists-wish-you-would-stop-1591309822

Made me think of endless discussions on JF.

A sampling:

Members of the general public (along with people with an ideological axe to grind) hear the word "theory" and equate it with "idea" or "supposition." We know better. Scientific theories are entire systems of testable ideas which are potentially refutable either by the evidence at hand or an experiment that somebody could perform. The best theories (in which I include special relativity, quantum mechanics, and evolution) have withstood a hundred years or more of challenges, either from people who want to prove themselves smarter than Einstein, or from people who don't like metaphysical challenges to their world view.
 

That course he spoke of needing to prepare for must be over by now. What is particularly troubling is his selection of last articles, including one on the philosophy of perfection, either in efforts of perfecting oneself, or perfecting some other(s). Could have some disillusioning ramifications for either a social justice crusader or a missionary out to save the world one convert at a time.

well, whatever. . . . however useless or pointless or vain the effort, making stuff better is what gives life meaning.
 
Found this article and enjoyed it. Thought others here might too.

https://io9.com/10-scientific-ideas-that-scientists-wish-you-would-stop-1591309822

Made me think of endless discussions on JF.

A sampling:

I was at first thinking you had stumbled upon the fact that living things have wave equations. If you told me your weight (mass), I could calculate your wavelength. However, with available tools I probably couldn't measure your wavelength and get a set of coherent data that would result in a set of data points with an acceptable level of confidence. . . . stating a mean, a mode, a variance. . . that would be different from a sack of potatos weighing (having a mass) five pounds different from your weight, resulting in a statement that the two objects have a statistically significant difference in wavelength.

And then, there's some other aspects of our existence, like neural electrical activities such a thinking, that generate waves with some wavelength, too.

waiting for Trout's "huh?".
 
LOL!!!

I had an argument with my husband a few months ago over his use of the phrase "statistically significant" in a letter to the editor of our local paper concerning some story they had published. I don't even remember what the issue was, and he was absolutely correct in saying whatever it was NOT "statistically significant" but I was trying to explain to him (from a layperson's point of view) that the ISSUE was SIGNIFICANT even though the statistics behind were not, and that most people reading his letter would think he was wrong and dismiss his opinion because it just sounded silly in the context he was writing about.



(it had something to do with a story about the first blood banks, and the early methods of banking blood, and some person credited as the "Father" of blood banks or something like that)
 
LOL!!!

I had an argument with my husband a few months ago over his use of the phrase "statistically significant" in a letter to the editor of our local paper concerning some story they had published. I don't even remember what the issue was, and he was absolutely correct in saying whatever it was NOT "statistically significant" but I was trying to explain to him (from a layperson's point of view) that the ISSUE was SIGNIFICANT even though the statistics behind were not, and that most people reading his letter would think he was wrong and dismiss his opinion because it just sounded silly in the context he was writing about.



(it had something to do with a story about the first blood banks, and the early methods of banking blood, and some person credited as the "Father" of blood banks or something like that)

Dracula?
 
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