Congratulations! You fail "Understanding the Scientific Method 101".
The scientific method does not include your "ad homiem variables", because they are not valid scientific data. If some racist in the 50's published a study that indicated blacks were inferior to whites, it would be enough that he didn't compare equivalent socioeconomic groups for the study to be refuted, knowing that he's a racist would inflect your own biases on it. Your idea of canceling out a researcher's supposed bias is not part of the scientific method because it's not an empirically proven result.
Don't try to bring politics into science, there's too much of that in the world aleady.
How is the scientific method a religion (if you don't mean defn 4), where religion must fit
1A. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
1B. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order.
3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
Also, how do you get from "He points out two of the major problems with the scientific method today, not your post spefically." to "Scientists are subject to bias. They don't combat bad science...."
It's a non sequitur that if scientists make mistakes, then the scientific method is flawed.
Never been quail hunting before eh? Dispersion isn't some magic factor that corrects for the inherent inaccuracy of a shotgun, you need to use a small size shot, and get quite a few into a bird to guarantee a kill, I don't know exact numbers since my uncle was kind enough to pick the shot out himself - maybe some actual hunter can reply. Furthermore, you use a shotgun hunting moving birds - I would assume that hunting with a hundgun would be for small stationary game, as a rifle or bow is used with large stationary game.
Yeah, it's a logical fallacy, whop de doo, you know the name of some arguement technique agreed upon by ivory towered professors. It's still a valid to use in a debate considering that emperically it has a very high chance of being true to a small or large degree.
Pointing out that Bush was a C student cokehead is an ad homiem attack, yet it's a perfectly reasonable point about his competency given that he's the President.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Jeff DeMaagd, Than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.
A blanket statement that bows aren't more accurate than handguns? Proof please, or I call BS. (And an expert bowhunter can't adjust for the fact that a bow doesn't fix imperfect arrows).
Second, do you even know what a shotgun is? It requires you to get close (relative to, say, rifle distance) to your target, the same reason you gave that handguns can't be used for hunting. Since shotguns can't be used for hunting, I'm wondering what *really* was in that quail stew my uncle made.
I think in regards to the govt trying to turn a profit, there's much less incentive for the head of say, NASA, to be efficient, than the head of Boeing.
And yeah, re: efficiency, for something like health care, I went to the hospital to get some stitches out, they had to put my personal information on about 20 forms, and took my vital for shits and giggles. I can't believe all of that is necessary, but maybe that's what it takes for bureaucracies to get things done, as well as cover their asses.
Oh wow, you took junior high physics too! That's nice, but Thermodynamics doesn't get taught, at least at UIUC, until sophomore standing.
First of all, for god's sake, if you're gonna use a physics link use some like Hyperphysics
Secondly, he's talking about heat pumps - so the first law of themodynamics would say that delta U = Q - W, and since the work is being done by the peltier to the system (car interior), it's negative, so you get the delta U = Q + W, where resistive heating would only get you delta U = W, hence > 100% heating efficiency.
Knee jerk reactions based on very limited phyiscs knowledge make you look both arrogant and stupid.
Uh, you should've just ignored my post - I mean, I make the giant mistake of assuming that because the govt can provide it for a lower price then the insurance companies can means that they can't because they don't. The govt can provide it for a low cost because they're not trying to make a profit, I think, but it's late and I shouldn't post when sleepy.
Yeah, it's kinda hard to read it when it's slashdotted -it would've been nice if the submitter had included the phase "map showing that he was issued a ticket for going one way down a two way street."
As for speeding, yeah, it's a great revenue source since people are impatient, but it is a highly dangerous activity - KE grows with the square of the speed, American roads are 11 inches compared to the Autobahn's 29 - they're not made to be driven at high speeds by
people who don't even know the rules.
element: Chemistry & Physics. A substance composed of atoms having an identical number of protons in each nucleus. Elements cannot be reduced to simpler substances by normal chemical means.
atom: Physics & Chemistry.
1. A unit of matter, the smallest unit of an element, having all the characteristics of that element and consisting of a dense, central, positively charged nucleus surrounded by a system of electrons. The entire structure has an approximate diameter of 10-8 centimeter and characteristically remains undivided in chemical reactions except for limited removal, transfer, or exchange of certain electrons.
>Economics applies as much to auto insurance as it does to anything else. If it COULD be done cheaper, it WOULD be done cheaper.
That's completly incorrect, as mibus's example in his reply point out. The market works to have supply equal to demand, and that gives maximum revenue. As the AC pointed out in his reply, BC insurance in less than half the price of Ontario, becaues it's run by the govt, and the govt isn't in the business of maximizing revenue, so it's not going to "price gouge". A monopoly on a required service like car insurance could theoretically charge $10k/year, but since there's not, the insurers are charging the supply-demand intersection point. If someone decided to greatly undercut his competitors, he'd have a shortage of insurance, so prices are what they are.
I'm wonder if $20 takes into account inflation, since the constitution was written in 1787, and according to the inflation calculator What cost $20 in 1800 would cost $216.86 in 2005.
Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
But seriously, only concerning speeding, this guy was issued a traffic ticket based on a speed check method that was thought to be accurate by the people who cleared it for use (though accurate to check speed or accurate in being a good revenue enhancer is debatable), and the guy showed the judge it wasn't.
As for people being accused of attemped speeding, in my highly scientific data collection I calculate that 99% of America speeds, and 90% 10mph safe (ie posted limits and taking conditions into account), so I have no problem with pretty much all speeding tickets issued. In a much more scientific way, the sheer number (There were about 2.9 million injury cases and 42643 car accident deaths) would seem to be highly indicative that people know jack shit about driving safely - the speed limit laws were made to be the maximum safe driving speed. Oh, and to get out of a ticket, get the sympathy of the officer in any way you can - this is much easier is you're female and play dumb, scared, and penitant.
The alcohol membrane problem gives me an idea - ferment wine, use regular reverse osmosis filter to pump out the water, drink brandy. If this works, you will be my personal hero for life.
sexism
1 : prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women
2 : behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex
So while I see you mean to use defn 2, the word stems from analogy with racism, whose etymology is originally in the context of Nazi theories, so it's really crappy communication to use sexism for anything but 1, because of its negative connotations.
As to generatlization about people (or anything for that matter), yeah, it sucks, but that's how the brain evolved to work effectively in a world with a low S/N ratio.
So quite possibly, Dakota Fanning's field has grass, so Nature's saying play ball and go pump out babies.
As for the sexual lives of prepubescents, while not capable of actual sex, children have a curiousity about their and others bodies that would be considered foreplay in adults, witness "playing doctor" - regardless of what you want to delude yourself with, humans are sexual creatures, and according to The Onion, the age of consent in South Carolina is 15, so that technially could be prepubescent sex.
My 95 Civic can handle the 10% ethanol that American pumps may contain up to, and most/all new cars can handle the 85% ethanol that some stations offer. Last summer some station in Chicago offered 85c gallons the first day.
>Lucky for us, at least in this country (US), the # of innocent people being convicted of crimes is remarkably low
I see. Does your universe have a state called Illinois where the previous governer imposed a moratorium on the death penalty because 119 people were wrongly sentanced to death? Please tell me how I can move to your Illinois since your justice system seems to be vastly superior to mine.
Iraq was supposed to allow weapons inspectors to verify it had none, as per the UN decision. Instead of doing this, they played games like capracious access to facilities, and taking inspectors to the wrong facilities. That's pretty strong evidence that Iraq was doing something that it didn't want weapons inspectors to know about. I wonder what they could have been doing?
Haha, you'll never catch me. I only drink good old Methanol.
In all seriousness though, do you test for a specific chemical, so that an opoid such as fentanyl wouldn't be detected by you, or by class, such as all chemicals that fit morphine receptors (or whatever they're called).
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Congratulations! You fail "Understanding the Scientific Method 101".
The scientific method does not include your "ad homiem variables", because they are not valid scientific data. If some racist in the 50's published a study that indicated blacks were inferior to whites, it would be enough that he didn't compare equivalent socioeconomic groups for the study to be refuted, knowing that he's a racist would inflect your own biases on it. Your idea of canceling out a researcher's supposed bias is not part of the scientific method because it's not an empirically proven result.
Don't try to bring politics into science, there's too much of that in the world aleady.
How is the scientific method a religion (if you don't mean defn 4), where religion must fit
..."
1A. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
1B. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order.
3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
Also, how do you get from "He points out two of the major problems with the scientific method today, not your post spefically." to "Scientists are subject to bias. They don't combat bad science.
It's a non sequitur that if scientists make mistakes, then the scientific method is flawed.
Never been quail hunting before eh? Dispersion isn't some magic factor that corrects for the inherent inaccuracy of a shotgun, you need to use a small size shot, and get quite a few into a bird to guarantee a kill, I don't know exact numbers since my uncle was kind enough to pick the shot out himself - maybe some actual hunter can reply. Furthermore, you use a shotgun hunting moving birds - I would assume that hunting with a hundgun would be for small stationary game, as a rifle or bow is used with large stationary game.
Additionally, modern handgun barrels are rifled, which causes the bullet to spin, giving it more stability in flight.
I'm still waiting for quantative evidence of the accuracy of arrows vs hanguns, not stuff you pulled out of your ass.
Might wanna take your own advice about being informed.
Wow! You took philosophy 100 too!
Yeah, it's a logical fallacy, whop de doo, you know the name of some arguement technique agreed upon by ivory towered professors. It's still a valid to use in a debate considering that emperically it has a very high chance of being true to a small or large degree.
Pointing out that Bush was a C student cokehead is an ad homiem attack, yet it's a perfectly reasonable point about his competency given that he's the President.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Jeff DeMaagd, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
A blanket statement that bows aren't more accurate than handguns? Proof please, or I call BS. (And an expert bowhunter can't adjust for the fact that a bow doesn't fix imperfect arrows).
Second, do you even know what a shotgun is? It requires you to get close (relative to, say, rifle distance) to your target, the same reason you gave that handguns can't be used for hunting. Since shotguns can't be used for hunting, I'm wondering what *really* was in that quail stew my uncle made.
I think in regards to the govt trying to turn a profit, there's much less incentive for the head of say, NASA, to be efficient, than the head of Boeing.
And yeah, re: efficiency, for something like health care, I went to the hospital to get some stitches out, they had to put my personal information on about 20 forms, and took my vital for shits and giggles. I can't believe all of that is necessary, but maybe that's what it takes for bureaucracies to get things done, as well as cover their asses.
Oh wow, you took junior high physics too! That's nice, but Thermodynamics doesn't get taught, at least at UIUC, until sophomore standing.
First of all, for god's sake, if you're gonna use a physics link use some like Hyperphysics
Secondly, he's talking about heat pumps - so the first law of themodynamics would say that delta U = Q - W, and since the work is being done by the peltier to the system (car interior), it's negative, so you get the delta U = Q + W, where resistive heating would only get you delta U = W, hence > 100% heating efficiency.
Knee jerk reactions based on very limited phyiscs knowledge make you look both arrogant and stupid.
Uh, you should've just ignored my post - I mean, I make the giant mistake of assuming that because the govt can provide it for a lower price then the insurance companies can means that they can't because they don't. The govt can provide it for a low cost because they're not trying to make a profit, I think, but it's late and I shouldn't post when sleepy.
Yeah, it's kinda hard to read it when it's slashdotted -it would've been nice if the submitter had included the phase "map showing that he was issued a ticket for going one way down a two way street."
As for speeding, yeah, it's a great revenue source since people are impatient, but it is a highly dangerous activity - KE grows with the square of the speed, American roads are 11 inches compared to the Autobahn's 29 - they're not made to be driven at high speeds by people who don't even know the rules.
The combined effects of the speed limit and speed cameras produced a 91% reduction in accidents in the study area.
Fuel economy is another reason to drive 55.
element: Chemistry & Physics. A substance composed of atoms having an identical number of protons in each nucleus. Elements cannot be reduced to simpler substances by normal chemical means.
atom: Physics & Chemistry. 1. A unit of matter, the smallest unit of an element, having all the characteristics of that element and consisting of a dense, central, positively charged nucleus surrounded by a system of electrons. The entire structure has an approximate diameter of 10-8 centimeter and characteristically remains undivided in chemical reactions except for limited removal, transfer, or exchange of certain electrons.
You lose.
>Economics applies as much to auto insurance as it does to anything else. If it COULD be done cheaper, it WOULD be done cheaper.
That's completly incorrect, as mibus's example in his reply point out. The market works to have supply equal to demand, and that gives maximum revenue. As the AC pointed out in his reply, BC insurance in less than half the price of Ontario, becaues it's run by the govt, and the govt isn't in the business of maximizing revenue, so it's not going to "price gouge". A monopoly on a required service like car insurance could theoretically charge $10k/year, but since there's not, the insurers are charging the supply-demand intersection point. If someone decided to greatly undercut his competitors, he'd have a shortage of insurance, so prices are what they are.
I'm wonder if $20 takes into account inflation, since the constitution was written in 1787, and according to the inflation calculator What cost $20 in 1800 would cost $216.86 in 2005.
Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
But seriously, only concerning speeding, this guy was issued a traffic ticket based on a speed check method that was thought to be accurate by the people who cleared it for use (though accurate to check speed or accurate in being a good revenue enhancer is debatable), and the guy showed the judge it wasn't.
As for people being accused of attemped speeding, in my highly scientific data collection I calculate that 99% of America speeds, and 90% 10mph safe (ie posted limits and taking conditions into account), so I have no problem with pretty much all speeding tickets issued. In a much more scientific way, the sheer number (There were about 2.9 million injury cases and 42643 car accident deaths) would seem to be highly indicative that people know jack shit about driving safely - the speed limit laws were made to be the maximum safe driving speed. Oh, and to get out of a ticket, get the sympathy of the officer in any way you can - this is much easier is you're female and play dumb, scared, and penitant.
The alcohol membrane problem gives me an idea - ferment wine, use regular reverse osmosis filter to pump out the water, drink brandy. If this works, you will be my personal hero for life.
sexism
1 : prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women
2 : behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex
So while I see you mean to use defn 2, the word stems from analogy with racism, whose etymology is originally in the context of Nazi theories, so it's really crappy communication to use sexism for anything but 1, because of its negative connotations.
As to generatlization about people (or anything for that matter), yeah, it sucks, but that's how the brain evolved to work effectively in a world with a low S/N ratio.
Don't worry, he's just jealous that he's 35 and hasn't even worked up the nerve to hold a full conversation with a girl.
You might wanna have a better grasp on the english language, and basic biology if you're gonna flip out about your moral hangups.
puberty The stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.
The physical changes of puberty occur somewhere between the ages of 9 and 16. The first sign in females is breast development, which usually occurs between ages 8-14, with an average age of 11-12. Pubic hair appears, on average, at age 12-13. Menstruation usually occurs one to two years after pubic hair growth.
So quite possibly, Dakota Fanning's field has grass, so Nature's saying play ball and go pump out babies.
As for the sexual lives of prepubescents, while not capable of actual sex, children have a curiousity about their and others bodies that would be considered foreplay in adults, witness "playing doctor" - regardless of what you want to delude yourself with, humans are sexual creatures, and according to The Onion, the age of consent in South Carolina is 15, so that technially could be prepubescent sex.
My 95 Civic can handle the 10% ethanol that American pumps may contain up to, and most/all new cars can handle the 85% ethanol that some stations offer. Last summer some station in Chicago offered 85c gallons the first day.
>Sadly there is nowhere on the planet where MORE heat is desireable.
Says you! We didn't put the neo-cons in the govt because we liked their reactionary views of science.
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>Lucky for us, at least in this country (US), the # of innocent people being convicted of crimes is remarkably low
I see. Does your universe have a state called Illinois where the previous governer imposed a moratorium on the death penalty because 119 people were wrongly sentanced to death? Please tell me how I can move to your Illinois since your justice system seems to be vastly superior to mine.
Iraq was supposed to allow weapons inspectors to verify it had none, as per the UN decision. Instead of doing this, they played games like capracious access to facilities, and taking inspectors to the wrong facilities. That's pretty strong evidence that Iraq was doing something that it didn't want weapons inspectors to know about. I wonder what they could have been doing?
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The American Revolution was not largely due to taxes, per se, but *what* was taxed. Those muthafuckers loved their muthafuckin tea.
Haha, you'll never catch me. I only drink good old Methanol.
In all seriousness though, do you test for a specific chemical, so that an opoid such as fentanyl wouldn't be detected by you, or by class, such as all chemicals that fit morphine receptors (or whatever they're called).
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