Re: [Vo]:Forbes Survey on E-Cat

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Rocha
It was also surprising that around 40% answered yes. That's a too big proportion for something that is considered crackpot and not linked to new age cults or any religion. 2012/1/9 Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net http://www.forbes.com/sites/**markgibbs/2012/01/08/the-e-**

Re: [Vo]:Forbes Survey on E-Cat

2012-01-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: Shocking to me that 86.3% think they know the answer, when there is no scientific basis to know the truth. You are being unreasonable. Most knowledge has no scientific basis. Nearly everything we know we take other people's word for. You know that

Re: [Vo]:Forbes Survey on E-Cat

2012-01-09 Thread Jouni Valkonen
There is also the fact that 95% of the reasonable people did interpret the question what is the most likely the correct answer. Normaly we by default think in terms of probabilities, although it is unconscious thinking. For most of the people probablities are hard thing to understand rationally,

Re: [Vo]:Forbes Survey on E-Cat

2012-01-09 Thread Mary Yugo
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Rossi's device has been tested by experts such as Kullander. Based on what he did and what he asked Rossi (or failed to ask Rossi), Kullander lost his credentials as an expert. However, to his credit, he asked for more