Yeah, you really hate to see people base their beliefs on evidence that can be independently verified through testing.
From a scientific point of view, seeing a deviation that enormous is a serious red flag. Typically when you're talking about outliers you see something on the order of 10 to 15% in extreme cases. 500% is the mother of all anomalies. In a lab, when you see something that unusual it's a good idea to check your…
Except anyone who's taken a high school level stat class should know that a deviation of more than %500 should be statistically impossible.
Some more facts: http://www.slate.com/articles/sport… Data here is a big ol' 5-year sample of every team's fumble avoidance rates. The largest 2nd largest deviation is about 10, while the Patriots are off by a whopping 52. That isn't just an outlier, that's a goddamn curve wrecker.
The gauge pressure/absolute pressure argument, while plausible, is moot—either way is moot—because there wasn't enough relevant data collected at the right time. Any results are going to be inconclusive at best. A critical piece of information that is missing is the air temperature of the room at the time the ball was…
The air pressure argument, while plausible, is moot—either way is moot—because there wasn't enough relevant data collected at the right time. A critical piece of information that is missing is the air temperature of the room at the time the ball was inflated. Most people I've seen working out the Ideal Gas Law…
This is a pretty good argument, but it's inconclusive. The math works, but it assumes the values entered for the variables are correct. You can make formulas say anything if you supply your own data, so I'm a little skeptical. The argument that temperature change could cause the deflation is a plausible scenario that…
The second largest deviation on that graph is about 10, the Patriot's deviate by 52! That isn't an outlier, that's a goddamn curve-wrecker. Blows the argument that it's just a little air out of the water.
Thanks for the debunking. I'd read an article from a physics professor at Boston University that explained absolute pressure vs gauge pressure. I was a little suspicious because it would have necessitated that the room the Patriots used to inflate the balls was 90 degrees F. This is a pretty strong retort.
Pardon me for explicitly restating the subtext. It's hard to believe that it still needs to be said, but (sigh, apparently) it does: endangering other people is not a protected right. Arguing the idiotic decision of not vaccinating your children to be a right makes as much sense as arguing drinking and driving to be…
Harken unto me, my child, it's gunna be a bumpy ass ride. There are only two things may truly be possibly infinite: the size of the universe and human stupidity. Yes people are that stupid. They are. And they come not single spy, but legion. And they can vote. And they do. Resist the urge to punch yourself in the…
Not it doesn't. That makes as much sense as calling drinking and driving a protected right. If someone wants to drink himself to death at home, most people won't have a problem with it. That person would only be hurting himself. But, if that person gets behind the wheel of a car, then people will have problem because…
You're being unfairly harsh on the dark ages. Medieval miasmatic theory of disease was at least based on evidence filtered through medieval understanding of the world. The anti-vaxxers are just idiots.
Like some many Onion articles, this made me laugh until I cried. Then I the grim reality of the subject set in and I got depressed, then pissed off.
Thank you!
Does anyone know when there began to be consensus that the sun was a star, or that stars were other suns? I know Giordano Bruno proposed the idea, but it wasn't accepted. I'm also curious about what evidence lead to the consensus.
"Getting to Know You" is definitely an "I want" song. Anna is a fish out of water in Siam and her role as a teacher is the only thing that makes sense to her. If she can understand her students, she can understand the world she's found herself in.
The "I want" song is something we were taught at NYU. It comes from the Broadway tradition of musicals. It's common in most many musicals since the 1940's and is typically the 2nd song of the show (the first being the opening that introduces the world of the show). Two examples off the top of my head is Book of…
The Federation probably could cure Picard's baldness. However, Jean-Luc Picard is Jean-Luc Picard, and Jean-Luc Picard doesn't give a fuck.