(September 11, 2014 at 3:54 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Ok, so in order to be confident in anything that science reveals, we need to try to control for all the possible variables? Correct?No. I don't need to know anything about the strong nuclear force or electromagnetic radiation to know that adding heat to liquid water will make it boil. A construction worker doesn't need to know the world is spherical to build a road.
As my examples demonstrate, the precision you want determines which variables you need to control. I can reach 95% or 99.99999% on a lot of things science has already discovered. 100% confidence is statistically impossible.
