So you accept Western psychological studies only when they suit you? — Gregory
Dunning and Kruger tested the hypotheses of the cognitive bias of illusory superiority on undergraduate students of introductory courses in psychology by examining the students' self-assessments of their intellectual skills in logical reasoning (inductive, deductive, abductive), English grammar, and personal sense of humor. After learning their self-assessment scores, the students were asked to estimate their ranks in the psychology class. The competent students underestimated their class rank, and the incompetent students overestimated theirs, but the incompetent students did not estimate their class rank as higher than the ranks estimated by the competent group. Across four studies, the research indicated that the study participants who scored in the bottom quartile on tests of their sense of humor, knowledge of grammar, and logical reasoning, overestimated their test performance and their abilities; despite test scores that placed them in the 12th percentile, the participants estimated they ranked in the 62nd percentile.[1][9] — Wikipedia on the Dunning-Kruger tests
And why are you asking for help to formalize your system on here? — Gregory
You believe in your religion despite the evidence. — Gregory
Again, you're a moron. — Gregory
ust one example country, Pakistan, to give you an indication of the interest in STEM fields amongst Muslims: — alcontali
I should be used to it by now, but I continue to be dismayed at the level of personal invective in these conversations. There are no stupid people out here. Please criticize the ideas, not the person — EricH
What exactly about being able to change the attributes of species from generation to generation (as we do when creating new apples) is not convincing to you? — Artemis
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.
Chapter 6 of Darwin's book is entitled "Difficulties of the Theory." In discussing these "difficulties" he noted "Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?" This dilemma can be referred to as the absence or rarity of transitional varieties in habitat space.[7]
Another dilemma,[8] related to the first one, is the absence or rarity of transitional varieties in time. Darwin pointed out that by the theory of natural selection "innumerable transitional forms must have existed," and wondered "why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth." — Wikipedia on speciation
Well, Alcontali is quiet on the question of STEM Nobel prizes by muslim scientists, so let me answer..... drum roll..... the answer is 2 (TWO!).
And one of them is Ahmediyya, a sect which is recognized by either Sunni or Shia as "muslim".
Yep, obviously a trememdous love for STEMM in those pious societies! — Nobeernolife
Taleb and Nobel laureate Myron Scholes have traded personal attacks, particularly after Taleb's paper with Espen Haug on why nobody used the Black–Scholes–Merton formula. Taleb said that Scholes was responsible for the financial crises of 2008, and suggested that "this guy should be in a retirement home doing Sudoku. His funds have blown up twice. He shouldn't be allowed in Washington to lecture anyone on risk."[4] — Wikipedia: Nassim Taleb's biography
"Bitcoin Is A Bubble." Krugman said that the cryptocurrency was an obvious bubble. He said its prices were going up because it was “some fancy technological thing that nobody really understands.” — Investopedia.com on Paul Krugman
Why is evolving an apple out of a fish the kind of proof you need? When clearly it would just take too long and too many resources to do? I mean, you'd be dead before the experiments were concluded. — Artemis
It's kind of like demanding scientists create a whole new planet with functioning gravity before you accept the reality of gravity. — Artemis
Over the past few centuries, two theoretical frameworks have been developed that, together, most closely resemble a TOE. These two theories upon which all modern physics rests are general relativity (GR) and quantum field theory (QFT).
Nevertheless, GR and QFT are mutually incompatible – they cannot both be right. — Wikipedia on the physical ToE
You haven't explained why it would be necessary though. — Artemis
All life on Earth shares a last universal common ancestor (LUCA)[10][11][12] that lived approximately 3.5–3.8 billion years ago. — Wikipedia on LUCA
Neither have you given me a good or better, evidence-based alternative theory. — Artemis
I haven't given an alternative theory for the incompatible GR + QFT combo either. That does not mean that it would now suddenly be compatible — alcontali
A working theory can't just be usurped because you're dissatisfied with some very minor evidenciary gaps. — Artemis
What is even the value of a theoretical idea that cannot possibly have applications somewhere in a downstream discipline? Seriously, if we could make money from any of this, then nobody would be complaining about it, but just be making money with it instead. — alcontali
Knowledge is an end in itself. — Artemis
we harnessed evolution in the form of selective breeding — Artemis
Speciation is not a huge, insurmountable problem for the theory of evolution — Artemis
Unfortunately, that is not what the problem is about. The LUCA and speciation hypothesis is not about selective breeding. Speciation and selective breeding are simply not the same things. — alcontali
then why don't they just carry out the artificial speciation? Thi — alcontali
Evolution has such a preponderance of evidence on its side, that really the burden of disproof is on you. — Artemis
Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding this effect can help you avoid falling for propaganda, says psychologist Tom Stafford. 'Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth', is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. Among psychologists something like this known as the 'illusion of truth' effect. — How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’
It involves formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental and measurement-based testing of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings.[1][2][3] — Wikipedia on the scientific method
Well, no, I just thought that Artemis objection was more interesting than your disconnected remark about (Barrack Obama's and Aung San Suu Kyi's ridiculous) Nobel prizes. — alcontali
I've been seeing a bunch of insults, so I cut and pasted all the names from the last few days. Apologies if I tarred you with a broad brush. — EricH
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