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

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 14:46:32 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.

    Unfortunately, the statistics you have learned is the false way. Least
    squares and p-tests are but a lie and a deceiver. To learn the true way
    you must unlearn the old knowledge and study Bayes.

    http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/science.pdf.html

    A religion? Yes, this is a religion. 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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