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But a clearly absurd or nonsensical result should be enough reason to double-check that the proof and results are actually valid. Common sense may have a somew
by tbrownaw 12y ago
But a clearly absurd or nonsensical result should be enough reason to double-check that the proof and results are actually valid.
Common sense may have a somewhat low weight for evaluating how probable some scientific result is, but it doesn't have zero weight. And neither does the possibility of experimental error.
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- waps 12y agoFrom the original paper : Lu Hong†‡§ and Scott E. Page¶ †Michigan Business School and ¶Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234; and ‡Department of Finance, Loyola University, Chicago, IL 60611 Now that "Business school" part, that's a good reason to recheck the conclusions. Heh, I'd like to pretend that a rebuttal to business school ideas will actually change them, but we all know how this will play out. The idea of diversity is imposed from above, and no-one will care about this. Politics is the origin of the diversity idea, nothing else.
- roguecoder 12y agoYou have it exactly backwards: all results should be double-checked and independently verified, especially the ones that confirm to common sense due to the pressure of confirmation bias.