✈️ Ah, the grand quest of discovering who first conjured the magical #myth of "equal transit-time"! 🤓 Because clearly, tracing the #origins of a #debunked theory is the pinnacle of scientific endeavors. 🧙‍♂️🔍
https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/9931/where-did-the-false-equal-transit-time-explanation-of-lift-originate-from #equaltransittime #scientificinquiry #curiosity #HackerNews #ngated

@glyph
I hear you.

My favourite (perhaps less jarring?) example is when a court declares they have found someone guilty, and that their threshold of guilt is "on balance of odds".

I look at the lawyers and the witnesses and realise that none of them has studied actuarial or probability mathematics. I wouldn't even trust them to understand a bet on the horses. For a scientist to watch them is like observing a cargo cult. Worse, I am sure, is for a scientist to find themselves on the receiving end of such a court.

I would offer the meagre consolation that you can see the feedback loops that drive them to behave so, where they think themselves to have free will.

#cybernetics #actuarial #odds #maths #math #statistics #science #scientificInquiry #systemsArchitecture #justice #law #policing #cargoCult

🤖📈 Welcome to the world where thinking people are "cultists" and #online #trolling is now an official criterion in scientific inquiry. Apparently, if you're not being told to "kill yourself" by keyboard warriors, you're not questioning hard enough. 😅🔍
https://ewanmorrison.substack.com/p/the-tranhumanist-cult-test #cultistculture #scientificinquiry #keyboardwarriors #questioningtruth #digitalage #HackerNews #ngated

An "Isolation Chamber" could be defined as an Echo Chamber of One, where external forces impose limitations on exposure to new ideas, perspectives, and meaningful dialogue.

#Physics #EchoChamber #IsolationChamber #ScientificInquiry #ThinkForYourself #AcademicFreedom #IntellectualPrison #ChallengeTheNorm #CriticalThinking #OpenScience #BeyondTheEquations #IndependentResearch #BreakTheCycle #KnowledgeShouldBeFree #ScienceDebate #TheoreticalPhysics #OutOfTheBoxThinking #ScientificRevolution

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2081: A Monstrosity and a Skeptic

Episode: 2081 A Monstrosity, a Skeptic, and a new view of the 16th century. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson gives birth to a cat.

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#AgnesBowker #AnthonyAnderson #magic #monstrousBirths #scientificInquiry #sixteenthCenturyScience #Superstition

@DrYohanJohn

#ScientificInquiry is the Immigration and Naturalization Service of All Kinds.

#Definition and #Determination • #SurveyPage
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2020/09/06/survey-of-definition-and-determination-1/

In the early 1990s, “in the middle of life’s journey” as the saying goes, I returned to grad school in a #SystemsEngineering program with the idea of taking a more systems-theoretic approach to my development of Peircean themes, from #Signs and #ScientificInquiry to #Logic and #InformationTheory.

#AI #AdaptiveSystems #IntelligentSystems #InquiryDrivenSystems
#Peirce #Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations #LogicOfScience

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