Re: [asa] POLL: How do you define 'Science'?

From: <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
Date: Thu May 29 2008 - 13:48:52 EDT

Not to defend Steve's rudeness, but not only did I not understand the poll, but I dont understand this post either.

You are trying to understand whose approaches?  What is the "real world"?  Is academia (where a lot of scientists do science) the real world?  And what theorists "right approach" are you referring too? 

I will look through the blog to see if that illuminates this issue.



On Thu May 29 13:31 , Collin R Brendemuehl sent:

That wasn't nice.
My goal is simply to understand the approaches being taken in the real world,
apart from what theorists might say is the "right" approach.

If you have a *better* way to phrase the question, I'm all for it.  Teach me.
But please don't insult me.

At 11:16 AM 5/29/2008, you wrote:
[applause]  Post of the month!  Maybe the year!  :-D

And seriously, don't bother visiting the "POLL" on the site.  It's incomprehensible.
 
>>> "David Opderbeck" <dopderbeck@gmail.com> 05/29/08 11:09 AM >>>
Sounds like parenting, or cooking, or sex.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Rich Blinne <rich.blinne@gmail.com> wrote:

> A cute "definition" is currently going around the Internet:
>
> Science: If you don't make mistakes you are doing it wrong. If you don't
> correct those mistakes you are really doing it wrong. If you don't accept
> you're mistaken then you are not doing it at all.
>
> Rich Blinne
> Member ASA
>



--
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology




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Sincerely,

Collin Brendemuehl
http://www.brendemuehl.net

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