XPost: alt.global-warming   
   From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   In alt.global-warming Mighty Wannabe  wrote:   
   > Eric Stevens wrote on 9/13/2021 12:01 AM:   
   >> Molten glass plus a whole lot of contaminants. Glass fibres have to be   
   >> defect free. They can't include contaminants.   
   > My post was in reply to your claim that "I don't see how they can be   
   > stripped from their resin without physical damage or leaving residue of   
   > the resin on the fibres".   
   > In my last post I have described a simple process that the resins can be   
   > separated from the fiberglass using solvent, high temperature, and   
   > hydraulic press.   
   > The resultant dirty fiberglass can be purified by melting the fiberglass   
   > back into glass. The process will purify the glass because the residual   
   > resin will be burned off.   
   > Do you know that glass is a byproduct of extracting iron from iron ore?   
   > Iron ore is definitely a lot dirtier than the recovered fiberglass from   
   > the resin."   
      
   Burn! :)   
      
      
   This is all shaping up like many other "arguments" with Stevens.   
      
   --   
   [Someone mentionions something is certain to "5 sigmas", the normal   
   level of certainty for fundamental science].   
      
   5-sigma is a measure of correlation. It's not a measure of proof.   
   What data do you believe it to be correlating?   
   -- Eric Stevens , 12 Jun 2020 10:26:18   
      
   [Despite a couple explanations from me on probability and hypothesis   
   testing, Stevens doubles down:]   
      
   If [5-sigma] is not a correlation, what is it then?   
   -- Eric "stats" Stevens, Jun 2020   
      
   [Possible idiosyncratic definition of "probably":]   
   I've probably studied more mathematics than you have, albeit longer   
   ago. I do know what I am talking about.   
   -- Eric Stevens , 14 Jun 2020 14:51:35   
      
   [The underlying concept being invoked -- "amount of mathematics" --   
   obviously falls foul of various methamatical concepts incl   
   but not limited to Arrow's theorem.  The fact someone would say   
   something so ill-defined and non-mathematical undermines the claim.   
   The likely fact the claimaint doesn't know anything about the 2nd data   
   in the comparison is pure icing].   
      
   [Stevens goes on to double double down complaining no-one has   
   proved to his satisfaction that a confidence interval is not the same   
   as a correlation].   
      
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