--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:15 AM, authfriend wrote:
> > > 
> > > > It's important to understanding the study.  It's being
> > > > used as a way to suggest they changed things around
> > > > after seeing the data to get a better result, which isn't
> > > > what happened.  And you're using it to construct all kinds
> > > > of speculations about their methodology.  It's just
> > > > ridiculous.
> > > >
> > > > They may have changed *other* things around, for all any
> > > > of us know, but they didn't just introduce the weather
> > > > after the fact.
> > > 
> > > Why do you think they MIU researchers refused to share their raw
> > > data with the University of Iowa?
> > 
> > I've explained this before.  The researcher who asked,
> > Barry Markovsky, had initially presented himself as an
> > objective, unbiased researcher who was interested in
> > their work.  They believed him and shared what they 
> > were doing with him.
> > 
> > Then they discovered he was making derogatory public
> > comments to the media and was strongly biased *against*
> > the whole enterprise.  When he demanded to see their
> > data, they were concerned that he would twist it and
> > misrepresent their findings.  They no longer trusted
> > him to give an honest account.
> >
> 
> That's not how Barry sees it, but given that he doesn't see his own 
> biases very well, I'm not surprised.

And even if he did, he'd hardly be likely to admit it.

>






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