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DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
"mind"
That's not all it hits!Sh** does seem to hit that there proverbial "Fan" some days...doesn't it, SjJ!
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Usually, the decision to take a nap on a day off is my best decision of the day. The decision not to get up until I have to pee is the 2nd best.
SolderIron
Addicted Member
Earth date 20240905.
Worth remembering there isn't anything getting in the way of a root canal.
Worth remembering there isn't anything getting in the way of a root canal.
Learned 2 interesting things about spiders this week. On a job site Wed, I saw one in mid molt. I thought all breeds found in Massachusetts were full grown by June or July and therefore done molting. Guess not!
Yesterday, there was one on my leg that folded its legs up so that it looked like some kind of seed. Never knew there was a breed that could do that!
Yesterday, there was one on my leg that folded its legs up so that it looked like some kind of seed. Never knew there was a breed that could do that!
Ice age by 2010 ! Popular belief when I was in high school !
Mystic
We're all born mad
I grew up in Chicago, where we had Ice Age every friggin year of The Sixites and The Seventies ... and probably beyond those decades.
I survived the white hurricane of 1977 so of the lowes barometer readings ever recorded in our area weeks of snow and ice !
78 was no picnic ether !
nailer
audionerd
From the introduction of a current read:
"The further backward you look the further forward you are likely to see." Winston Churchill
"HISTORY, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." Ambrose Bierce
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Robert Heinlein
"The further backward you look the further forward you are likely to see." Winston Churchill
"HISTORY, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." Ambrose Bierce
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Robert Heinlein
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DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
"Science" is just another agency of the machine. The number of free scientists practicing in the world could be counted on one hand. The latest incarnation, "The Science," doesn't even embrace the first principles of science- skepticism. So, when "they" say or predict anything in contemporary times, you're just hearing an employee spouting the bosses line.
DeadRock
Ideas Guy
You've got one size of brush...it's broader than a barn door.
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
I often think that the people (scientists/reporters) sharing, often state a "theory", that really is a "hypothesis", and Joe Public accepts it as such.
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nailer
audionerd
The Difference Between Hypothesis and TheoryI often think that the people (scientists/reporters) sharing, often state a "theory", that really is a "hypothesis", and Joe Public accepts it as such.
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A hypothesis is an assumption, an idea that is proposed for the sake of argument so that it can be tested to see if it might be true.
In the scientific method, the hypothesis is constructed before any applicable research has been done, apart from a basic background review. You ask a question, read up on what has been studied before, and then form a hypothesis.
A hypothesis is usually tentative; it's an assumption or suggestion made strictly for the objective of being tested.
A theory, in contrast, is a principle that has been formed as an attempt to explain things that have already been substantiated by data. It is used in the names of a number of principles accepted in the scientific community, such as the Big Bang Theory. Because of the rigors of experimentation and control, it is understood to be more likely to be true than a hypothesis is.
In non-scientific use, however, hypothesis and theory are often used interchangeably to mean simply an idea, speculation, or hunch, with theory being the more common choice.
Since this casual use does away with the distinctions upheld by the scientific community, hypothesis and theory are prone to being wrongly interpreted even when they are encountered in scientific contexts—or at least, contexts that allude to scientific study without making the critical distinction that scientists employ when weighing hypotheses and theories.
The most common occurrence is when theory is interpreted—and sometimes even gleefully seized upon—to mean something having less truth value than other scientific principles. (The word law applies to principles so firmly established that they are almost never questioned, such as the law of gravity.)
This mistake is one of projection: since we use theory in general to mean something lightly speculated, then it's implied that scientists must be talking about the same level of uncertainty when they use theory to refer to their well-tested and reasoned principles.
The distinction has come to the forefront particularly on occasions when the content of science curricula in schools has been challenged—notably, when a school board in Georgia put stickers on textbooks stating that evolution was "a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things." As Kenneth R. Miller, a cell biologist at Brown University, has said, a theory "doesn’t mean a hunch or a guess. A theory is a system of explanations that ties together a whole bunch of facts. It not only explains those facts, but predicts what you ought to find from other observations and experiments.”
While theories are never completely infallible, they form the basis of scientific reasoning because, as Miller said "to the best of our ability, we’ve tested them, and they’ve held up."
Definition of HYPOTHESIS
an assumption or concession made for the sake of argument; an interpretation of a practical situation or condition taken as the ground for action; a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
DeadRock
Ideas Guy
Joe Public...AKA Everyone Else But Me...I often think that the people (scientists/reporters) sharing, often state a "theory", that really is a "hypothesis", and Joe Public accepts it as such.
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DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Right-O! That's the effect of "science by press release." Harvard U. has amassed a gigantic endowment as the eminent practitioner of this PR scheme.I often think that the people (scientists/reporters) sharing, often state a "theory", that really is a "hypothesis", and Joe Public accepts it as such.
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