Re: OT: getting older/wiser

From	Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: OT: getting older/wiser
Date	2014-02-27 18:01 +0000
Message-ID	<270220141801436894%timstreater@greenbee.net> (permalink)
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In article <lene5o$3og$1@dont-email.me>, Jerry Stuckle
<jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:

> On 2/27/2014 7:04 AM, bill wrote:

> > Recent research indicates that the reason older folk think "slower" is
> > that they have more memories to go through to find what they are looking
> > for (tested with word finding).
> > It is reasonable to conclude that older = wiser, not slower.

> Yes, but that research is controversial and has not been validated by 
> peer review yet.  Possibly in the future it will be, but until it is, it 
> is only a theory.  Remember cold fusion?

You mean it's only a hypothesis. Cold Fusion never advanced to being a
theory, because it was never validated by experiments carried out by
others. And the purpose of peer review is to critique your experiment
which has led you to make a claim and advance a hypothesis. Your peers
might then say f'rinstance that your methodology is bad, your analysis
is bad, and so on.

-- 
"People don't buy Microsoft for quality, they buy it for compatibility
with what Bob in accounting bought last year. Trace it back - they buy
Microsoft because the IBM Selectric didn't suck much" - P Seebach, afc

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  Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-26 12:07 -0500
    Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-26 09:52 -0800
      Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-26 13:52 -0500
        Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Adam Harvey <usenet@adamharvey.name> - 2014-02-26 21:25 +0000
          Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-26 13:48 -0800
          Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-26 17:22 -0500
        OT: getting older/wiser bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-02-27 07:04 -0500
          Re: OT: getting older/wiser Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-27 08:22 -0500
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-02-27 11:02 -0500
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-27 09:11 -0800
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-27 18:52 +0100
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-27 16:20 -0500
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2014-02-27 23:56 +0000
                Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-28 19:08 -0800
                Re: OT: getting older/wiser Colin Birch <colin@ihatespamrailscans.co.uk> - 2014-03-01 13:37 +0000
                Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-03-02 12:51 -0800
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-27 18:01 +0000

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