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		stavros on Nov 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I don't like this cartoon I see, thanks. Are the differences hard to reconcile, given that we can do Monte Carlo on a model and see whose predictions are correct? I'm just annoyed by there being two camps in science, where one gets slightly different results from the other. It seems to me that one is obviously wrong, since there's only one truth.

scrame on Nov 11, 2012 | [–]

You think that's bad, you should check out physics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything

Statistics is more about data sets and interpretation than "right" vs. "wrong".

JonnieCache on Nov 11, 2012 | | [–]

> It seems to me that one is obviously wrong, since there's only one truth.

A bold claim.

stavros on Nov 11, 2012 | | [–]

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth

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