In Reply to: your errors in deductive reasoning shouldn't go unchallenged posted by Sordidman on July 8, 2014 at 09:20:42:
"The course of all scientific investigation & discovery is one of hypothesis and testing." I agree. For a test to be valid, it has to allow for a negative result. The test must allow the possibility the hypothesis is wrong.
My point is, on this forum at least, only positive results are accepted. That is not "testing." If anyone were to repeat the OP's original "experiment" but then reported a negative result, they would be dismissed as being deaf or having an "unworthy" stereo, or somehow not doing the job right. So long as the inmates on this forum insist on acknowledging only one type of result pretty much zero "testing" will occur. As you yourself point out, without testing there is no science.
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Follow Ups
- You are missing my point - Jaundiced Ear 19:01:14 07/08/14 (9)
- No, you are making a cynical prediction that is baseless - Sordidman 12:11:22 07/09/14 (8)
- RE: No, you are making a cynical prediction that is baseless - Jaundiced Ear 16:27:02 07/09/14 (7)
- " no actual "science" was performed here" - Sordidman 09:22:02 07/10/14 (2)
- RE: " no actual "science" was performed here" - Jaundiced Ear 17:14:38 07/10/14 (1)
- Will be happy to exit as well: but your analogy embarasses you - Sordidman 10:39:49 07/11/14 (0)
- RE: No, you are making a cynical prediction that is baseless - Tony Lauck 07:10:09 07/10/14 (3)
- RE: No, you are making a cynical prediction that is baseless - Jaundiced Ear 17:22:03 07/10/14 (1)
- RE: No, you are making a cynical prediction that is baseless - Tony Lauck 18:20:33 07/10/14 (0)
- Perfectly stated - and is a mistery why it is not understood. N/T - carcass93 08:57:42 07/10/14 (0)