Perceived connections: Inferring meaning where there is none https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/Dec-2018/Feature-3
Meaningless data are tough words to swallow. John Armitage and Tom Coulthard argue that Earth scientists must face up to the fact that some observations might be an aggregation of seemingly random events, where there is no cause and effect. Papers Armitage, J. & Coulthard, T., Perceived connections: Inferring meaning where there is none. Geoscientist 28 (11), 18-21, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1144/geosci2018-030 https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/Geoscientist/2018/December%202018/F3_Dec%202018.pdf?la=en Falk, R. and Konold, C., 1997. Making sense of randomness: Implicit encoding as a basis for judgment. Psychological Review, 104(2), p.301-318 https://www.srri.umass.edu/publications/falk-1997msr/ https://www.srri.umass.edu/sites/srri/files/FalkKonold1997/index.pdf A related editorial well worth finding and reading is: Wright, V.P., 2019. Memes, False News, and the Death of Empiricism. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 89(4), pp.310-311. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres/article-abstract/89/4/310/570050 Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
