RE: The code that is DNA
December 19, 2019 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2019 at 1:26 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(December 19, 2019 at 1:12 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The meanings are pretty much opposite, if you're using them interchangeably you either don't understand what they mean are you are deliberately obfuscating.
I'm using the word appropriately; I've given no indication of using it interchangeably with inference or hypothesis (your initial accusation). Your dislike of the word has no effect on how I'm using it. In my above example I quoted the author of the text directly. He ends the introduction to his paper as follows: "I believe that parsimony methods do make assumptions that are not always met. Before discussing those assumptions, it is useful to start with an assumption that parsimony methods certainly are not guilty of making" (Felsenstein, 1983, p. 321).
Reference: Felsenstein, J. 1983. Parsimony in systematics: Biological and statistical issues. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 14: 313–333.