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What can you logically do with those correlations ? They’re just correlations How can it be a predictor when we don’t know the value ? Ive never taken a test a

What can you logically do with those correlations ? They’re just correlations How can it be a predictor when we don’t know the value ? Ive never taken a test and I dont know anyone who’s ever made a test

scotty79 2y ago
How can a temperature be a predictor of getting burned if I don't have a thermometer and no one I know does either?
- ttoinou 2y ago
  If you dont have those you can’t really relate the sensation of cold / warm to the scientific concept of temperature. Unless you blindly trust what someone else does
  - scotty79 2y ago
    > If you dont have those you can’t really relate the sensation of cold / warm to the scientific concept of temperature It doesn't make it less of a fact. > Unless you blindly trust what someone else does I don't have to blindly trust. I can just plainly trust. The same way I do with many things in my life. If I limited myself to what I can perceive myself I would be limited severely. And also wrong many times because personal perceptions are sometimes flawed and misleading.
    - ttoinou 2y ago
      > And also wrong many times because personal perceptions are sometimes flawed and misleading. For example what you perceive others say and do, they're just perceptions, n=1, but somehow, for some reasons, you think they're above others experiences you have in life, and you can qualify them as "good facts"
      - scotty79 2y ago
        I value research of people that spent their lives on it more than my personal illusions. Reading someone's research has way less opportunities for lying to yourself than trying to form an opinion on this subject from your own experiences only. Sure, my perceptions of reading someone's research are burdened with errors just like everything else I perceive in life. But since the knowledge is distilled and condensed then there's less opportunities to mess it up, compared to the alternative of "doing my own research". I don't see how that's controversial for you. That's how science works. You read what other people wrote first. Then you try to make some contribution if you are so inclined.

scotty79 2y ago

How can a temperature be a predictor of getting burned if I don't have a thermometer and no one I know does either?

ttoinou 2y ago
If you dont have those you can’t really relate the sensation of cold / warm to the scientific concept of temperature. Unless you blindly trust what someone else does
- scotty79 2y ago
  > If you dont have those you can’t really relate the sensation of cold / warm to the scientific concept of temperature It doesn't make it less of a fact. > Unless you blindly trust what someone else does I don't have to blindly trust. I can just plainly trust. The same way I do with many things in my life. If I limited myself to what I can perceive myself I would be limited severely. And also wrong many times because personal perceptions are sometimes flawed and misleading.
  - ttoinou 2y ago
    > And also wrong many times because personal perceptions are sometimes flawed and misleading. For example what you perceive others say and do, they're just perceptions, n=1, but somehow, for some reasons, you think they're above others experiences you have in life, and you can qualify them as "good facts"
    - scotty79 2y ago
      I value research of people that spent their lives on it more than my personal illusions. Reading someone's research has way less opportunities for lying to yourself than trying to form an opinion on this subject from your own experiences only. Sure, my perceptions of reading someone's research are burdened with errors just like everything else I perceive in life. But since the knowledge is distilled and condensed then there's less opportunities to mess it up, compared to the alternative of "doing my own research". I don't see how that's controversial for you. That's how science works. You read what other people wrote first. Then you try to make some contribution if you are so inclined.