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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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