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Why the Cloud Cannot Obscure the Scientific Method
aproposofwhat noted Ars Technica's rebuttal to
yesterday's story about "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete." The response is titled "Why the cloud cannot obscure the Scientific Method," and is a good follow up to the discussion.
"but lets not bash the idea or miss the point just cause the original author's a complete bumbling moron."
No, but you are if you think that was the point of the article. First, nowhere did the author speak of "hierarchal organization systems." In fact what are "hierarchal organization systems?" Are speaking of XML? Object Oriented databases? But regardless that was not his point.
Second, "...analysis of data to show causation will come from correlation," is gibberish. It means nothing. It underscores you're profound lack of knowledge of how scientific experiments are conducted, how data from experiments are collected and analyzed. In fact you are very much like the Wired author who speaks without knowing.
You might want to read books on Statistics.