--- off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip > The research > grant system > ensures that a researcher is under pressure to prove > their pet > theory. Another way of saying this is that the researcher is attempting to disprove the null hypothesis (i.e., that the event is not statistically possible). So there is an implicit bias in the very structure of statistical research. But how could you get around this? > <<<When professors at the > > U of Iowa attempted to do, MUM refused to > cooperate with them.>>> > > When was this? Where did you hear this? I forgot his name, he's a sociologist at the U of I. It is common scientific practice to allow your raw statistical data to be examined by other researchers. MIU/MUM would not allow this because, I suspect, that their number crunching was a little outside of normal limits and the data could be shown to confirm the null hypothesis with more conservative statistical analysis. This would mean that the ME, as an alternative explanatory hypothesis, was, at best, very weak, or, at worst, no explanation at all. Considering the radical paradigm shift of the ME, the statistical research used to support this alternative hypothesis was very weak. > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > --------------------~--> > Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make > Yahoo! your home page > http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
