Statements that are true independent of the data are analytic (informally, “tautological”). If you are talking about properties of power laws you are probably describing “underlying reality”. If you say some property of nature obeys a power law then probably not.
Frank From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2018 10:19 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Scant evidence of power laws Absolute power corrupts absolutely – Lord Acton The article is very good. I recommend it to my fellow “citizens”. What always amazes me about physicists is how easily they slide between their descriptive laws and their explanatory principles. Is the power law a descriptive generality that can be falsified by statistical analysis or an “underlying Reality” that is true no matter what the data say. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 11:03 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Scant evidence of power laws You missed it, it's linked in the lede, 2nd through 4th words. -- rec -- On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 7:24 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected]> wrote: Did I miss it? Or was this the article they (failed to) link(ed) to? Scale-free networks are rare https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03400 On 02/16/2018 10:03 AM, Roger Frye wrote: > https://www.quantamagazine.org/scant-evidence-of-power-laws-found-in-real-world-networks-20180215/ -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ 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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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