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The problem I have is that the more sources you use to find correlation, the more likely you will find it. Even if they are individually quite unrelated. When
by ksaj 3y ago
The problem I have is that the more sources you use to find correlation, the more likely you will find it. Even if they are individually quite unrelated.
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by night drives. When cars would simultaneously have their turn signals on, they would appear to drift in and out of synchronous time. When you have several cars, they would occasionally have several all blink at the same time.
I sometimes feel discouraged that this is what they are seeing when we measure the effects of gravity waves this way. All these blinking sources at very extremely different distances and speeds, however regular they are, will warp our perception of their timing in comparison to each other, just like the turn signals.
Hopefully I'm wrong, and this is an exciting discovery and technique for this purpose.
- tambourine_man 3y agoI’d think they’ve considere such possibility and account for it