Gravity waves from Big Bang detected

Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected by cromwellian on Monday March 17, 2014 @01:01PM (#7416336)

I love the humility, skepticism of belief Linde professes at the end. Despite a deep desire to believe in the beautiful, he is well aware of how you can be seduced into believing things because you want to, not because the universe is that way.

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Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected by snarkyturtle on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:46PM (#7417579)

There's a Ben Franklin quote: "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see." Seems like Linde subscribes to that thought, as all scientifically-minded people do.

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Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected by LeoNatan25 on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:23PM (#7417434)

This is what separates the scientists from ... others.

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Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected by Balgair on Monday March 17, 2014 @05:09PM (#7418112)

We can only wish that is true, we are all just humans in the end:

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...

Also, I vaguely remember a study in 'some journal' that looked at all it's P values[0] and found an alarming number of them parked right at the limit of acceptance (.05), more so than chance could assume. If anyone remembers this study and can provide actual proof (not my terrible memory), I would be very thankful.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

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Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected by betenoire on Monday March 17, 2014 @06:51PM (#7418660)

I don't think he's commenting on statistical analysis, but rather saying that a scientist should follow the clues where ever it may take them, instead of looking for the clues that will get them where they want to be. And of course they fuck up, too.

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Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected by judk on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @10:48PM (#7426537)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._A._Ioannidis

"Most published findings are probably false."

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Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected by lomnakkus on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @07:09PM (#7432519)

I can't claim to understand much of the statistics, but according to [1], p-values are pretty sketchy as a measure of "is this likely to be true?"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez4DgdurRPg

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Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected by hexagonc on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:09PM (#7423262)

Or rather, the scientific method from. . . other ways of "knowing"

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