| Re: OT: getting older/wiser [message #185127 is a reply to message #185120] |
Thu, 27 February 2014 18:01  |
Tim Streater
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In article <lene5o$3og$1(at)dont-email(dot)me>, Jerry Stuckle
<jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
> On 2/27/2014 7:04 AM, bill wrote:
>> Recent research indicates that the reason older folk think "slower" is
>> that they have more memories to go through to find what they are looking
>> for (tested with word finding).
>> It is reasonable to conclude that older = wiser, not slower.
> Yes, but that research is controversial and has not been validated by
> peer review yet. Possibly in the future it will be, but until it is, it
> is only a theory. Remember cold fusion?
You mean it's only a hypothesis. Cold Fusion never advanced to being a
theory, because it was never validated by experiments carried out by
others. And the purpose of peer review is to critique your experiment
which has led you to make a claim and advance a hypothesis. Your peers
might then say f'rinstance that your methodology is bad, your analysis
is bad, and so on.
--
"People don't buy Microsoft for quality, they buy it for compatibility
with what Bob in accounting bought last year. Trace it back - they buy
Microsoft because the IBM Selectric didn't suck much" - P Seebach, afc
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