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What signifies a real expert is uncertainty

When the real expert doesn’t really know. Here’s an interesting approach to the question from a political scientist and a business prof.

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Abandon statistical significance, learn to live with uncertainty, scientists demand

Let’s see where this goes. Will it lead to less magic with numbers or more and bigger magic?

JVL Upright BiPed: If JVL is implying that I’ve done something to keep him from being able to respond, he needs... – Bill Dembski offers some thoughts on...
ram Only A Fool Would Let His Enemy Teach His Children – Malcolm X --Ram – Can We Endure?
kairosfocus F/N: Here's the atheists' nightmare, William Lane Craig: You ask, “How can absolute truth be communicated through the medium of... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
kairosfocus PS: We can know that we are duty bound prior to establishing a full orbed worldview [as I just further... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
kairosfocus WJM, you cited a duty of contractual obligation and a duty of sustaining a lawn that may be an implicit... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
kairosfocus MNY, I cited as against known ideological interest. Criterion of embarrassment. Now, let me turn to the SEP Enc of... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
jerry There is no duty involved in the 2nd statement Cicero said nothing about watering one's law. So how many fallacies... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
mohammadnursyamsu @WJM You've got nothing to complain about against KF, because you yourself also just fantasize the definitions of objectivity and... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
polistra The interesting thing about the blob, after I got past the EEEEEEEEWWWWW!!! ICK! response, is its structure. It IS distinctly... – Bryozoa add to Cambrian Explosion’s impact:...
William J Murray KF said: Yet again, the objective evidence of objectors appealing to what they would discredit is manifest. OMG your logic... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
mohammadnursyamsu @KF Sure you have the atheist Molyneux, and Wikipedia, to back up your definitions. You reference the worst sources. Your... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
bornagain77 And the fine tuning of Dark Energy makes the problem that atheists have with the "fine tuning in the extreme"... – At Mind Matters News: Physicist: Science,...
bornagain77 Seversky remarks that, "Perhaps CNET should stick to technology and not try branching out into science." And perhaps Seversky should... – At Mind Matters News: Physicist: Science,...
kairosfocus MNY, the definition given again for objectivity is anything but an idiosyncratic fantasy as even Wikipedia concedes. KF – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
mohammadnursyamsu @KF You keep spouting your outrageous nonsense about subjectivity and objectivity, the definitions of which you just FANTASIZE. And then... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
martin_r Darwinists, stay sane ... – Proving that they are genuine “sceptics,”...
martin_r ... Earlier Than Thought ... this is Darwinian science ... always wrong ... not to mention, that common ancestors ALWAYS... – Bryozoa add to Cambrian Explosion’s impact:...
martin_r all EDUCATED rational persons with even a BASIC KNOWLEDGE in molecular biology have to admit, that Darwinism failed in a... – At Claremont Review of Books: “The...
kairosfocus SB, so rare to see you these days. KF – Can We Endure?
kairosfocus F/N: I note on the OP: In substituting information for perception, informational realism is able to preserve a common-sense realism... – Bill Dembski offers some thoughts on...
kairosfocus JS: Do you not see that it is NON-circular, non-question begging . . . fallacies against duties to right reason,... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...