tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564064.post6739874226935292802..comments2023-07-16T07:03:20.896-04:00Comments on GedankenTravelExperiment: Where can you go for good Science?karlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13511491414073382506noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564064.post-62745689814898314452006-10-17T21:27:00.000-04:002006-10-17T21:27:00.000-04:00I have not seen the actual study, and, like I said...I have not seen the actual study, and, like I said, I do not know what the real answer is, but I am 100% certain that CNN's treatement of it did not resemble the science that it was supposed to deal with.karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511491414073382506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564064.post-39263956548399830752006-10-16T13:52:00.000-04:002006-10-16T13:52:00.000-04:00As far as the men vs. women IQ study goes, the way...As far as the men vs. women IQ study goes, the way I understand it, it wasn't exactly a randomized study. It was a study of SAT scores over a period of time. <br /><br />Now if a random group of people took the test, it would have been valid, but since the people who take the SAT are college bound, and since women have better grades and are less dependent on the SAT to get in and are more strongly represented than women on campus in general, it's pretty safe to assume that they would have a larger number of people willing to take the test and get a lower score than men.<br /><br />In other words, the populations were pre selected to show a gender gap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564064.post-22909308784559190332006-10-16T13:50:00.000-04:002006-10-16T13:50:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3564064.post-5514194073384793252006-10-13T13:44:00.000-04:002006-10-13T13:44:00.000-04:00I actually had this same conversation with my cous...I actually had this same conversation with my cousin a few weeks ago. He holds Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth as gospel. I asked him why the "thruth" only became "inconvenient" after Gore left office. Gore has an agenda to promote. Anyone who makes a "documentary" about global warming yet only flies in private jets and has a variety of homes, each of which are in excess of 20,000 + square feet (that need heating and cooling); has no credibility. Many people tend to think that people who are environmentalists have some inkling of scientific knowledge as the basis for their tree hugging beliefs. My grandfather was a chemist and manufactured vitamins in his plants in Indiana and Illinois. He had to pay off environemental groups all the time to get him off his back because of the tests he used to do at his plants. The environmental lobby in Washington is very powerful and they have an agenda to promote whether it be based on real science or junk science. They will only support and fund those scientists who will help them promote their agenda. Be it factual or not. <br /><br />PS. Junkscience.com had an intersting article debunking "An Inconvenient Truth."Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04229892212442832458noreply@blogger.com