Saturday, July 19, 2014

Climate Science

Climate Science is new.
It has an enormous number of variables.
It attracts the second tier of scientific minds*, not the first.
Why then do we give its claims more credence than we do other sciences?
First answer: photographs.


*All sciences except math tend to have physics envy.

4 comments:

  1. That plot has some curious features. Generic "Physics" or "Math" is higher than any particular branch of it. And I guess nursing has deteriorated some since the days of my mother's training (RN, teacher, extremely articulate, translated/trans-cultured MasterLife material into French in Africa, wrote a popular anti-AIDS pamphlet, assembled a team and produced several TV shows--her resume is better than mine)

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  2. I didn't see law on there. Apparently I was meant to be a physicist, though I can't say I ever gave it any serious consideration! Not sure why. It does run in the family.

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  3. Law and medicine are both not on there, likely because they take different tests for graduate school.

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  4. Good point. Back then, not having any idea what I should do, I took every test there was: SAT, LSAT, GRE, achievement tests, you name it. (Well, one exception: I never took the MCAT.) No matter what test I took, I always scored almost exactly the same thing. Whatever mysterious quality they were testing for, they consistently zeroed in on it.

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