Henry Gee: Paleontologist, Author, and Senior Editor at Nature
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
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How Can We Teach People to Understand the Difference Between Corraltion and Causation?
H henry has always been sceptical of everything. So couldn't a legitimate scientificco be written off as not reproducible and therefore not true? It's the same with the searchor extra terrestrial intelligence. People see very strange little signals which seem very regular and ordered, and may see them once and never see them again. This is a problem one has in palaeontology, where you can't test the result. In a way, it's very hard to be scientific. You have to use all sorts of other means to do this, and be a bit crafty. Very practical, very tactical. How can we teach people to understand the difference between corral tion and causation
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