Posts by Riddley Walker
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oh riiiiight, so there is no association between the National Party and Citizens and Ratepayers. good one Craig
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or a Godwin's Law clause to Godwin's Law
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I like the quote in the Citizens and Ratepayers' attack flyer that says
"...you can fix the fiscal mismanagement, the broken promises, the ethics issues, and the poor direction of Auckland City by... voting for [National/ACT Party allied] Citizens and Ratepayers Now."
I presume by 'fix', they mean, 'make permanent'.
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yesiknowwhatyoumean.itsamazinghowlittlespeedinguptheplay
erdoesforyourcomprehensionanditsavesalotoftime.
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my bet is on another victory for the poor advertising industry and their equally down-trodden corporate clients.
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i just can't seem to help being inflammatory
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just testing mine
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i didn't think they handed out nobels for political studies?
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That said, more power to people reading science
yeah definitely. as reece said, you gots to start somewhere, and i'd hazard to say a shakey primary reading of a journal article is likely to still be less misinformed than relying on secondary msm readings, which step even further over the boundaries of valid extrapolation and inference than even anthro journals do ;)
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Bart, i didn't realise your comments pertained specifically to journals. in that case i would generally agree, although papers can be published for all sorts of reasons and sometimes it seems intended for the (expert) reader to make what they will of the data's validity.
without wanting to labour a point too much, there is another problem with journals however, and that is they never publish null hypotheses, so when a rigorous study finds no significant relationship between variables (which in itself can be useful, for the very least in establishing contexts of other findings), the information is not presented.