Shane: > That astrology's theoretical structure finds no place among the theoretical > structures of the "respectable" sciences in no way negates the fact > that it is, in principle, scientific. Empirical testing could > invalidate--or (perish the thought) confirm it.
But then, there is the data issue: should it be time-series, cross-sectional or panel (that is, time-series/cross-sectional)? If it is time-series or panel, what should be the observation frequency: yearly, monthly, hourly, every other secondly or shorter or way longer than yearly? If it is cross-sectional or panel, how large should be the cross-section: five persons, 5,000 persons, 5,000,000 persons, the entire human population currently alive and lived in the past? How about fitting a two-dimensional Fourier Series to an infinitely long-infinitely broad data? The fit would be perfect, but would it explain or predict anything? Best, Sabri _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
