--- 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 ------------------------ 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/
