On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Eric Chadbourne <[email protected] > wrote:
> > I'm reading up on being "unfalsifiable" now. Fascinating Indeed. Science is based on hypothesis-testing. Only a "falsifiable" hypothesis is testable. If evidence against a conspiracy theory is taken to show how effective the conspiracy is, the hypothesis in unfalsifiable. If the statistical model is guilty of over-fitting (too many degrees of freedom aka too many parameters), the model is non-falsifiable in the short-term. (But eventually enough data will show that adding 5th order epicycles is guff.) -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
