RE: evolution and diet (was: FITNESS: Diet and Exercise)

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Apr 19 2003 - 16:04:02 MDT

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    gts wrote,
    > Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
    > > > This is just basic Stat 101.
    > >
    > > No it isn't. Have any of you guys actually taken
    > > Statistics or Experimental Methods in college?
    >
    > Yes. I have, Harvey. Not only did I ace Stat 101, but
    > I also aced all the more advanced statistics courses,
    > including "Quantitative Methods and Research Design,"
    > which I took during in a Masters Degree program at Cal
    > State.
    >
    > I would like you show me how anything I wrote in that
    > post was false.

    I think you covered the problem with your other post. Apparently, I was not
    the only one who misunderstood you. It sounded to me like you were using
    the default hypothesis as a way to avoid providing proof by pushing the
    burden of proof onto those who disagreed with you. Since you now point out
    that you believe proof has been scientifically determined and that it was
    the scientific studies that endorse your conclusions, I have no disagreement
    with your methods.

    > Apparently I haven't made myself clear. I wonder how
    > many more times I will need to repeat myself on this
    > particular point. I've done so at least three times
    > here already with Harvey and others, in this thread
    > and in other diet-related threads populated by the
    > same people.

    This is one of the reasons I am currently thinking about ways to "fix"
    e-mail communications. We often find ourselves repeating points, and having
    points misunderstood by others. I think it is because e-mail is not
    structures or precise enough to make our points clear. So jokes without
    smileys are taken as serious. Comments are taken as full-blown attacks.
    Minor adjustments are taken as complete counter-arguments. I know this
    happens to everyone on all sides. And while there is a tendency to blame
    some people for this problems more than others, I think it is a universal
    difficulty with the medium itself. 

    --
Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC
<www.HarveyNewstrom.com>

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