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|    Re: If predictions fail your hypothesis     |
|    27 Jan 26 19:17:35    |
      XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism, alt.messianic       From: paul.aubrin@invalid.org              Le 27/01/2026 à 14:30, Dawn Flood a écrit :       > On 1/27/2026 12:16 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote:       >> Le 27/01/2026 à 01:23, Dawn Flood a écrit :       >>>> To day I danced a rain dance. If it rains tomorrow, how would you       >>>> explain that ?       >>>>       >>>       >>> Only if your predictions can constitute a statistically significant       >>> result       >>       >> That is not enough. One single erroneous prediction can invalidate a       >> false hypothesis. But you need many good predictions, all over the       >> validity domain, to gain confidence in a new hypothesis.       >> All the climate models failed the comparison with observations over       >> the 1979 to 2016 periodd.       >>       >       > They also fail over the 2016-2017 period, as well as this past weekend.       > Try extending your graph instead of cropping it.              1) the comparison with reality (observation) became statistically       significant in 2016.       2016-1979 = 37 years, that is more than the 30 years which define "climate".       2) A single counter-example is enough to invalidate a general hypothesis       of physics.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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