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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (547102)1/31/2010 12:22:44 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1576094
 
>>> I have been able to detect anomalies in processes with only 1 month's worth of data out of 10 years. You simply don't know how statistics and science work.

Of course. There are processes which have nominal variance where a particular incident, 1 out of 120, can be determined as "anomalous" or even "statistically significant".

Weather isn't one of them. I'm not a climate scientist but I know something about statistics. And there simply isn't enough data over a long enough period of time to draw meaningful conclusions.

More importantly, what we have is a situation where the point of the science is to prove a predetermined outcome, not to establish what a particular outcome might be or what it is happening.
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