Message from @fallot

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2017-05-09 05:31:10 UTC  

Confirmed by experiment perhaps

2017-05-09 05:31:16 UTC  

Perhaps not

2017-05-09 05:31:30 UTC  

If we were to tally the causes of starvation to attempt to prevent it, counting only the past 100 years of history is entirely inferior to measuring the entirety of both history and prehistory.

2017-05-09 05:31:48 UTC  

This is objective

2017-05-09 05:31:58 UTC  

the more data you have the better

2017-05-09 05:32:10 UTC  

The better in what sense

2017-05-09 05:32:30 UTC  

To check against your own conclusions?

2017-05-09 05:32:43 UTC  

To compound an error you made?

2017-05-09 05:32:54 UTC  

The better understanding of what causes starvation

2017-05-09 05:33:18 UTC  

More data also gives you the ability to construct viable seeming statistical models

2017-05-09 05:33:36 UTC  

Which are basically best fit abstractions. Or not even best fit

2017-05-09 05:33:56 UTC  

That are not true. You see this a lot in recent high energy physics

2017-05-09 05:34:00 UTC  

And astronomy

2017-05-09 05:34:14 UTC  

Where there is a surfiet of data

2017-05-09 05:34:37 UTC  

And papers being written every day based on it that will turn out to be spurious

2017-05-09 05:34:43 UTC  

The vast majority

2017-05-09 05:34:48 UTC  

Actually it would give you less ability to construct viable statisticial models because it allots for more variation

2017-05-09 05:35:11 UTC  

Viable as in viable seeming

2017-05-09 05:35:30 UTC  

I don't see how that changes anything

2017-05-09 05:35:44 UTC  

More data = more possibility for deviation of an imagined pattern

2017-05-09 05:35:54 UTC  

My point isnt the things you said dont matter

2017-05-09 05:36:07 UTC  

This helps remove human bias when theories don't match up

2017-05-09 05:36:31 UTC  

I respectfully think most of the scientific community disagrees

2017-05-09 05:36:38 UTC  

But you're free to your opinion

2017-05-09 05:36:44 UTC  

More data is not necessarily more possibility for deviation

2017-05-09 05:36:54 UTC  

But it is

2017-05-09 05:36:58 UTC  

In an assumption

2017-05-09 05:37:02 UTC  

That's simply fact

2017-05-09 05:37:04 UTC  

Not at all

2017-05-09 05:37:20 UTC  

Maybe you get lucky and what you study has a narrow spread

2017-05-09 05:37:36 UTC  

That's not about possibility

2017-05-09 05:37:39 UTC  

you're giving a specific example

2017-05-09 05:37:43 UTC  

More 'resolution' in a wide field

2017-05-09 05:37:50 UTC  

Doesnt help you

2017-05-09 05:37:59 UTC  

When you have no framework for the field

2017-05-09 05:38:07 UTC  

The framework comes first

2017-05-09 05:38:14 UTC  

That's very generalized

2017-05-09 05:38:18 UTC  

my point still stands though

2017-05-09 05:38:23 UTC  

Its a general discussion no

2017-05-09 05:38:48 UTC  

The more data you have, the more possibility for variation, compared to less data.

2017-05-09 05:39:14 UTC  

that's a very basic concept