The world's first scientist

[LinuxGal]

God: "What did you just do?"

Eve: "You said the fruit was fatal within twenty-four hours."

God: "I did."

Eve: "But snake said the fruit was not immediately fatal.  In fact, he said it was brain food."

God: "That doesn't answer my question."

Eve: "Well, I had two competing claims, so I carried out an experiment to find out who was lying."

Adam: "If it makes any difference, sir, I helped."

God: "You what?"

Eve: "He also ate the fruit.  I told him I wanted to evaluate any sex-based differences."

God: "And what was the result?"

Eve: "It's brain food."

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

God: "What did you just do?"

Eve: "You said the fruit was fatal within twenty-four hours."

God: "I did."

Eve: "But snake said the fruit was not immediately fatal.  In fact, he said it was brain food."

God: "That doesn't answer my question."

Eve: "Well, I had two competing claims, so I carried out an experiment to find out who was lying."

Adam: "If it makes any difference, sir, I helped."

God: "You what?"

Eve: "He also ate the fruit.  I told him I wanted to evaluate any sex-based differences."

God: "And what was the result?"

Eve: "It's brain food."

That’s not really a scientific experiment. Eve would have needed at least two more people - one male, one female - as a control group.

Boru

[Jehanne]

That’s not really a scientific experiment. Eve would have needed at least two more people - one male, one female - as a control group.

Boru

I would have some concerns about such a small sample size.

[LinuxGal]

That’s not really a scientific experiment. Eve would have needed at least two more people - one male, one female - as a control group.

Boru

I would have some concerns about such a small sample size.

This was a time when a man, his wife, and their little boy could built an entire city with a population of three.


Genesis 4:17-18 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.  And unto Enoch was born Irad...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

That’s not really a scientific experiment. Eve would have needed at least two more people - one male, one female - as a control group.

Boru

I would have some concerns about such a small sample size.

Hence the qualifier ‘at least’. Clearly, the larger your data set, the better.

Boru

[Jehanne]

I would have some concerns about such a small sample size.

Hence the qualifier ‘at least’. Clearly, the larger your data set, the better.

Boru

I was trying to be polite.  One could make few, if any, statistical inferences with respect to any population that was substantially larger, at least with respect to any novel characteristics that were not already self-evident.

[Jehanne]

I would have some concerns about such a small sample size.

This was a time when a man, his wife, and their little boy could built an entire city with a population of three.


Genesis 4:17-18 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.  And unto Enoch was born Irad...

"Surely, your joking, LinuxGal!"

[Anomalocaris]

That’s not really a scientific experiment. Eve would have needed at least two more people - one male, one female - as a control group.

Boru

I would have some concerns about such a small sample size.

Surely there were those who trod the path to science before ever the new fangled concept of “statistically significant” had been invented to help sort out the mess made by god.

[Jehanne]

I find it amazing that inferential statistics is only about a century old with the work of Pearson, Fischer and Tukey taking place in the 20th-century.