Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 22:30:04 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971111222819.1399A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711120626.XAA02122@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Umm, the people who got better weren't praying, they were being prayed > > > for, and by people whom they had no contact with. > > > > Which proves, simply, that truly bogus results are possible even in > > well designed experiments. > > Actually, your statement proves that closed minds exists, even by people > who claim to be 'scientific' and 'open-minded'. Then again, maybe you > don't consider yourself open-minded, so I may be jumping to conclusions. > > > > Nate > That's not nice, Nate. Bogus results are possible. But can you repeat this experiment and get statistically valid results? That's science. That one group got better and the other didn't--once-- isn't science. AA
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