Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 100

@design_RG

Answer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF#Heuristics

@design_RG You may not know enough math to get it to be honest.. If you don;t see it now you probably wont get it :)

@design_RG yup, isolate the \(\infty\) and it might give you a hint as to the source of the joke.. if not ill give you the whole bit

@iamo If you feel I have abused you then bring a report against me, we are a democracy and action can be taken against me like anyone else.

So if you feel I abused you, report it and we will have a review and i will not be able to vote on it either.

@iamo Anything I can do?

LOL you guys get it?

\[\infty - 4 \cdot \infty = \frac{1}{4}\]

@design_RG In theory i love the ide. In practice cool hobbiest keboards have been around for a while and no one ever picks them up and turns it into a real product...

I wish...

@design_RG I wish i could buy one premade :(

@design_RG Where do I get it?

@design_RG I absolutely must have one now!!!

@Vamp898 Actually thats exactly what they did. It was a **fact** in 2000 that pluto was a planet.. then in 2003 I think it was a bunch of people got together and decided to change around some historically accepted vocabulary to something new. So now in 2019 according to any linguistic system which accepts the new modified definition, it is **now** a fact that it is not a planet.

But since it was little more than a linguistic revision, and has nothing to do with any fact intrinsic to the material world, it is only true within the linguistic model they created.

So thats a very weak argument for pluto being a planet in my eyes.As you said facts cant be voted on, yet that is exactly what happened with pluto, you contradicted yourself.

@Vamp898 No I think you are missing the point. Facts are facts, they are immutable, but YOU and no one else gets to say what is a fact or what is not, because that is debatable.

Yes you can vote if gravity exists because although you may be quite certain it is a fact other people may be quite certain it isnt a fact. Which of these two groups are correct is an opinion, depending on what your opinion is it may be correct or not.

Your fallacy is assuming that if something is an opinion it cant be a fact, that is untrue.

For example some people think the universe is a closed system, other people think it is an open system. There exists a fact where one of these two is true, in reality, despite the fact that some fact exists, people argue as to which of these two is actually the fact. So for example the proper thing to say would be "It is my opinion that the universe is an open system". This is the correct way to state that, even though we are talking about something that is either true or false. If you said "It is a fact ..." well you'd just be a pompas ass and trying to assert dominance where it isnt needed.

Gravity is no different except for the fact that more people agree it is a fact, so you are a lot safer in your opinion of it being fact than not, its more likely to be true. So likely in fact that we may just call it a "fact" for simplicity sake. But in the end it is no different, it is still an opinion about whether it is a fact or not.

To put it another way.. everything you hold in your head are the opinions about those things you beleive to be fact or not. Nothing more, nothing less.

@cowanon Well thats a hard question to answer without getting into a bit of philosophy.

The first thing we have to understand is that we are dealing with a matter of degrees. Nothing can truly be proven to be true absolutely. But we can give enough evidence that it is reasonable to conclude something is true, at least until stronger counter evidence comes along.

So the goal is not to ensure you are never wrong, but only maximize your chances about beind right, and being aware of how certain we are, which is a bit of a judgement call

So when something is asserted to be true we are really thinking of two things, what is most likely fact, as well as how confident we are.

If we want to assert something is true and be confident about it then we really want to see a few things, ideally. We should find good published papers in peer-reviewed journals that agree with the assertion, we should see a track record of several such publications proving the same fact in different ways, we should see very few, if any, papers that counter it, and we should see the vast majority of scientists tend to agree (this usually goes hand in hand with the papers being published in the first place.

What we should be skeptical of are singular papers, papers that dont pass peer review, etc.

Now what you asked about control groups and and double-blind studies, I will answer that in a second, but keep in mind those are things scientists engaged in peer-review do. Peer review is the process a paper in a well respected journal must go through before being published. It is where other scientists try to point out errors or unreliable practices in papers and challenge the author to correct it, and if they cant it wont get published. One of the things those scientists will look at include if study is double-blind, or if it has control groups (Among other things)

Of course its important you be aware of these things so you can provide your own judgement as you read the paper, but keep in mind you are almost certainly not an expert on the subject you are reading. So in many ways the expertise of the scientists or did the peer review is more valuable than your own judgment at that point.

One thing that is very useful if it exists for the topic you are investigating are meta-studies, those are studies that review all the studies on a subject and try to determine what the consensus is among the studies, they can be very telling.

So with that said a control group is a group representing the natural "background" tendencies. For example if we are talking about cigarettes causing cancer the control group are the people who dont smoke cigarettes so we can see how likely cancer is on its own before we make any assertions as to the effect of cigarettes on it.

Double-blind refers to the fact that in studies the person administering the test to the subjects is "blind" or unaware to what is being administered just as the person being studied is unaware. In other words, double blind means that both the person administering the test, and the subject, is unaware of if they are in the control group or not.

@cowanon So what you really want to know is how can you verify what is scientifically and rigorously shown to be true beyond reasonable doubt?

@cowanon You just want to know the meaning of those words? What was unclear when you tried to look it up?

@ericbuijs1 They arent spamming the instance, they dont tag anyone, follow anyone, and are marked as a bot.

There is nothing about that bot that would constitute spam. Making a handful of posts over a short period once a day is hardly spam by any measure.

I do appreciate you mentioning it, but any user can filter out bots if they dont want to see automated posts. So its a non-problem as far as I can see.

Thank you.

@Meachamus_Prime

Fair point, but as you say, context. It is explaining that while gender grew out of the idea of sex it has now come to mean something no longer dictated by sex.

@CCoinTradingIdeas

@design_RG Still cool, thanks for sharing!

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