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Author Topic:   Loneliness and Belief
nwr
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Message 10 of 22 (450266)
01-21-2008 12:48 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by Hyroglyphx
01-21-2008 12:22 PM


Re: Anything but God
I notice that so long as one affixes the touted word "study" to any given particular, that people don't generally care how it is they've come to the conclusions. They take it on total faith through the assumption that the people conducting such a test have logically and systematically configured it, whether it is so or not.
Then you don't know much about science.
A study like this will get careful scrutiny, to see if there are possible flaws in the methodology used. Sooner or later the study will be repeated, but with a different experimental design. That tests whether the first results could have been a rare statistical event or could have resulted from poor experimental design.

Let's end the political smears

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nwr
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Message 13 of 22 (450274)
01-21-2008 1:16 PM
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01-21-2008 12:59 PM


Re: Anything but God
I'm saying people are apt to just believe it for face value under the assumption of an appeal to authority.
I certainly don't "just believe it", and I'm sure that there are many who are similarly skeptical. I take such a study as possibly interesting. But I also take it as tentative and needing evaluation of the research methodology and needing confirmation from independent research.

Let's end the political smears

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