Ep 162: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 7 ”Hits and False Alarms” Part 1
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A Systematic Error in Methodology
When you measure or observe something you don't know if there's an error not being made in the background. Here are my two preferred stories about that again listeners to talk cast would have heard these before Both from physics one mentioned in the beginning of infinity and one that I've talked about because it was Involving some lecturers of my own. One story is this researchers at the university of new south Wales astro physicists were pointing Telescopes at the sky and measuring using spectroscopy The absorption of light from distant quasars as it traveled towards the earth.
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