(January 17, 2022 at 11:39 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:
Science can handle the possibility that correlations are false. If the correlation between drownings and phenomenon x becomes apparent, the next step is to formulate a new hypothesis that can be falsified and continue testing.
For example: more people swim in the summer. Also more ice cream trucks rolling around in the summer. Let's see if "it being summer" (or something else) doesn't better explain the supposed correlation.
If poly is taking up the mantle of Humean skepticism, then I think your criticisms are apt. But I don't think these criticisms are good criticisms of science in general. If only one experiment could be done ever, then yes... a false correlation is devastating to gnosis. But science can take hundreds of cracks at a problem. So one bad result doesn't seem like an issue to me.
What in the world is this?
I am impressed.
You actually collected the data from 1999 to 2009?
Or is there some kind of gigantic database of all the facts that ever existed and you can have it generate a graph like that?
Did you fake this graph?
Nicolas Cage, in 2009, appeared in Astro boy, G-Force, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Knowing. That's 4.
Nicolas Cage, in 2005, appeared in The Weather Man, The Lord of warz. That's 2.
Nicolas Cage, in 2003, appeared in Matchstick Men, That's 1.
So, those data points in your graph are correct.
Man, you should have typed in Ice Cream Trucks. Did you type in Nicolas Cage by accident?