--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- 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? 
> > 
> 
> Actually, the researcher is supposed to set things up to confirm 
the 
> null hypothesis yet leave his pet theory a way to counterdict it 
> there's something there. Type II errors are when you fail to leave 
> much opportunity to find an effect (rule out the null hypothesis) 
if 
> there is one.
> 
> 
> 
> > > <<<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.
> 
> Barry Markowski. Nice guy, but with definite anti-TM bias. Of 
course,  he will say (with some justification) that his bias is 
legitimate.>>>

Perhaps  because he is of the same irrational nature as this other 
agenda-focused scientist/book seller mentioned here , Robert Parks.
http://istpp.org/crime_prevention/voodoo_rebuttal.html






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