Saul Caganoff wrote at 03/28/2013 04:05 PM: > I'm astonished that anyone could even contemplate fitting a straight > line to those scatter plots.
Yeah, but that's the problem. We pattern recognizers have no choice but to do _something_ ... anything in order to recognize a pattern. > Alternative hypothesis...isn't it just that EWMs have a propensity to > benefit from the status-quo? I don't know. I would think the EWMs would be aggressive enough to recognize that _if_ a sea change is on the horizon, they'd want to put themselves in a position to come out on top after the change. So, perhaps if we reform your alternative hypothesis to: The EWMs want to make the surveyors _think_ that they think the climate risk is low, while actually operating behind the scenes to ensure their hegemony after the effects of climate change settle out. Then I might get on board. ;-) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. -- Jacob Hornberger ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
