On 22 Jan 2009 14:41:01 -0600, Dave wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:21:51 -0500, Martin Baxter said:

That's greats, polls also show that the majority of people on this
planet worship an extraterrestrial, so what?

Have you considered the possibility that you could be out of step?

Comedy GOLD! Bwhahahahahaha!

Dave wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:21:51 -0500, Martin Baxter said:

That's greats, polls also show that the majority of people on this
planet worship an extraterrestrial, so what?

Have you considered the possibility that you could be out of step?

There is a definite probability, greater than 0.5 that I am indeed "out
of step", IMHO of course. Given that, I still fail to see the bearing
on an opinion poll vis-a-vis the probability of a hypothesis regarding
global warming being correct.

Cheers
Martin

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Dave wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:21:51 -0500, Martin Baxter said:

That's greats, polls also show that the majority of people on this
planet worship an extraterrestrial, so what?

Have you considered the possibility that you could be out of step?

There is a definite probability, greater than 0.5 that I am indeed "out
of step", IMHO of course. Given that, I still fail to see the bearing on
an opinion poll vis-a-vis the probability of a hypothesis regarding global
warming being correct.

Cheers
Martin

Democratic science. The majority opinion must be the truth.

KLC Lewis wrote:
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Dave wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:21:51 -0500, Martin Baxter said:

That's greats, polls also show that the majority of people on this
planet worship an extraterrestrial, so what?
Have you considered the possibility that you could be out of step?
There is a definite probability, greater than 0.5 that I am indeed "out
of step", IMHO of course. Given that, I still fail to see the bearing on
an opinion poll vis-a-vis the probability of a hypothesis regarding global
warming being correct.

Cheers
Martin

Democratic science. The majority opinion must be the truth.


The cows in WI win a lot then, huh?

"katy" wrote in message
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KLC Lewis wrote:

Democratic science. The majority opinion must be the truth.
The cows in WI win a lot then, huh?

We're smart enough to not let them vote, anymore.

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"Marty" wrote in message
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I still fail to see the bearing on an opinion poll vis-a-vis the
probability of a hypothesis regarding global warming being correct.

Cheers
Martin

Popular notions are always wrong. Yes, "always!"

Dave wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:42:47 -0600, "Jolly Roger"
said:

Popular notions are always wrong. Yes, "always!"

Now, you take that popular notion that the earth is approximately round....

In European the popular notion was the world was flat. for several
hundreds of years the popular notion in Europe was that the world was flat.

Several hundred years before Columbus, the popular notion in Europe was
the world was flat. At the time of Columbus the popular notion was just
beginning to change. So popular notion are not always correct

Earlier the popular notion was a theory of chemical bonding called
Phlogiston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston) It was a popular
theory that everyone believed in. It retarded the true understanding of
Chemistry for decades. Could it be that the popular theory of global
warming is like the Phlogiston theory and preventing a true
understanding of climatology?

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:42:47 -0600, "Jolly Roger"

said:

Popular notions are always wrong. Yes, "always!"

Now, you take that popular notion that the earth is approximately
round....

FYE: A notion is a Conception, an Impression, Imagination, Opinion,
Doctrine, Belief, Supposition, a Thought. Notions are theories, not proven
or observable, not a Truth, Reality, Fact, or Actuality.

A notion may be true or false, but notions that gain popular support before
being proven or observed are always wrong.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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Might there be a more than remote possibility that those not out of step
are
correct?

No, popular notions are ALWAYS wrong.

Dave wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:46:29 -0500, Marty said:

Dave wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:21:51 -0500, Martin Baxter said:

That's greats, polls also show that the majority of people on this
planet worship an extraterrestrial, so what?
Have you considered the possibility that you could be out of step?
There is a definite probability, greater than 0.5 that I am indeed "out
of step", IMHO of course. Given that, I still fail to see the bearing
on an opinion poll vis-a-vis the probability of a hypothesis regarding
global warming being correct.

Might there be a more than remote possibility that those not out of step are
correct?


Well there is alway the possibility, however the majority opinion of
some poll does not constitute a valid scientific argument. An opinion
poll merely tells one the feeling of the masses, but has little if
anything to do with the "correctness" of anything other than validating
or invalidating an hypothesis about the majority opinion.

Cheers
Martin