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