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Geez, anything you don't understand is "mistaken?" How more arrogant can you be? (Especially since you know nothing about science). I'm under no obligation to teach you. Besides, you continue to refuse to learn. The example about the battles and the generals I gave is to illustrate the...

LOL. Every post of yours makes you a bigger joke! Did you misunderstand the hint I gave you? Statistics is used to discern patterns, random or not. One does not need random samples a priori. In clinical trials, random samples are needed to eliminate correlations to other factors not related...

Remind us what is a "motive," z10. :D

If you know that you don't understand science, then don't make false statements about science that you don't understand. You don't overstep your bounds, and I won't object to your posts.

No. Your inability to understand a point is truly amazing. Do you know what is a "null hypothesis?" How does one infer that a certain hypothesis is valid? (hint: look at how drug companies conduct clinical trials).

This really betrays your ignorance of statistics. Statistical methods can be used to summarize or describe a collection of data; this is called descriptive statistics. In addition, patterns in the data may be modeled in a way that accounts for randomness and uncertainty in the observations, to...

I take exception to that. The fringe element is the repub party. Just look at Bush.

I didn't know logic grows on nut trees. :D Have you ever heard of the barber's paradox? It is related to a problem in set theory, that whether a set defined by "not being a member of any set" can have a member. Your logic belongs right there. Can "a state that does not exist" be produced...

Nomenclature refers to a method of assigning (unique) names. What method did you use to assign the name "cheap shot" to certain posts? It sure was not a definition otherwise you would've used "my definition" instead of "my nomenclature." :D According to this "nomenclature," "Z10's snowflake...

Indeed...

I hate to fight this battle all over again with someone who hasn't the decency of reading all the previous posts before joining the discussion. I would simply point out, that the theory of gravity is considered old hat, and the quantum theoy is already accepted norm in science today. The fact...

Meanwhile, jem still believes that 1. Time began before time began; 2. Rockets run in quantum orbits; 3. His Firefox settings are wrong.

FYI, on the window where you type in your post, there are three buttons in the same row, where you click "Submit Reply" in your Firefox browser (I always use Firefox). Next to "Submit Reply" is "Preview Reply." Next to "Preview Reply" is "Check Spelling." ET's spellchecker works pretty well...

Actually, a National Academy of Science study found that polygraphs "would incorrectly classify 99.5% of “deceptive” results (those telling the truth yet incorrectly deemed to be deceitful), and incorrectly classify 20% of deceitful subjects." That's pretty useless IMHO. Its utility is...

I guess the point is completely lost on you. Do you live near a university? If so, go to the university library and look for the journal "Physical Review Letters." They should have it. Find the article and read it. Find the related articles and read them. Then you'll begin to understand what the...

Obviously, you don't even understand why you're getting F's. Motive, is the primary reason for action. In other words, lacking motive, then there is no reason for action. In a court the lack of motive is often used in criminal defense. Motivate, OTOH, means to use incentives to move...

Another F. Try again.

You get an F in English. Try again.

jem, Don't get too hung up on a quote from a "Nobel Prize winner." First, you don't understand what they're talking about. Second, if you do, then you know that they're as likely to be wrong as anyone else. If you really want to learn about the AP and the cosmology constant, read the...

It's a dishonest comparison. Try compare Washington DC (the highest murder rate in that table) with Baghdad. It's hard to get good numbers for Baghdad but we know the lower limit: Iraqi Health Ministry claimed that August had the lowest violent death rate in Baghdad, at 550, according to Fox...