--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- 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.>>>
He was probably an anti-TM born-again Chrisitan anyway. I think you shoul dread this carefully: http://istpp.org/crime_prevention/voodoo_rebuttal.html > 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. >>> Unfortunately the statisticians and scientists that peer-review for Social Indicators Research disagree with you.....totally. Are you right and they wrong? ------------------------ 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/
