Comments on: From the Kitchen #43 http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/03/17/from-the-kitchen-43/ Including weekly musings by Daan Spijer. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:51:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tarwin http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/03/17/from-the-kitchen-43/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Tarwin Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:38:35 +0000 http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/?p=539#comment-212 Trains: I'm pretty sure they've got it right - and if you asked the engineers who did the calculations on how many carriages to run together to get the best breaking speeds with the current faulty trains you'd get a very complicated and non-understandable answer; and you'd suddenly rather this "lie to children" style answer. Climate: 90%. Sure. What's wrong with that? It's very scientific. Science ONLY works in likeliness - never in certainties - otherwise you'd be talking dogma, rather than statistical likelihood right? I'm 73% sure of it! Trains: I’m pretty sure they’ve got it right – and if you asked the engineers who did the calculations on how many carriages to run together to get the best breaking speeds with the current faulty trains you’d get a very complicated and non-understandable answer; and you’d suddenly rather this “lie to children” style answer.

Climate: 90%. Sure. What’s wrong with that? It’s very scientific. Science ONLY works in likeliness – never in certainties – otherwise you’d be talking dogma, rather than statistical likelihood right? I’m 73% sure of it!

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