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Something you share with many mathematicians (those who do proofs). To be good at math you have to have (a) interest (b) intelligence (c) a good teacher and learning resources Too many blame a lack of (a) or (b) when (c) might have been a significant factor.

Apparently. I didn't notice anything. :p Actually, I think I was driving at the time.

Can you change the thread title (to include the rest of the world) so I can comment. Thanks. :m129:

What do you personally consider 'more exciting' (realistic examples please)?

Well besides considering the intentions of the 'attacker', which has already been mentioned by others. The other reason is that some people perceive it as the suggestion that they were not competent enough to select a useful (or true) worldview.

Well some of us are unlucky enough to feel like that all the time, so...

No, I suspect there was much more to it than that.

While Morgan easily guessed the answer, you still need to learn an important lesson when dealing with the scientific method. You have to be as specific as possible in recording all possible conditions, even those which you think are irrelevant to the experiment as well as other specificities...

Given the sheer number of possibilities and the limited computational abilities of our current market place and democratic systems, I think not.

What happens if they don't have concrete ideas about policy or firm beliefs about ideology? It makes your pigeon-holing somewhat superficial and lacking in predictivity. I do like the following sort of spectrum, but it is a mistake to assume that this is the only way of looking at politics...

If it was such a great idea, why did Steve ultimately give it up?

It's not the tests that matter, but rather how well the descriptions predict your behaviour. If the descriptions fail to predict your behaviour, then it is the theory that has failed, not you.

Like on invasion of the body snatchers?

I'll address the tools issue on another day, but the issue is that biological systems are very complex, yet biologists only have the tools to investigate the systems in somewhat simplistic and labour intensive ways. I'm not kidding when I say it is hard to imagine some of the tools that will be...

How can the drug dealers compete with corporate production and distribution. The whole reason why drug dealers exist is because the prices are very high, due to the fact that they're illegal (and thus the supply is limited). The high prices justify the risk. That is to say that prohibition of...