Comments on Professor Astronomy's Astronomy Blog: Data, Analysis, and Reality

Thanks for the post, This article will be used in ...

2009-10-21T18:35:13.602-05:00

Thanks for the post, This article will be used in the October 2009 issue of SACnews, the Offficial newsletter of the Saguaro Astronomy Club of Phoenix, AZ: www.saguaroastro.org

Rick Tejera
Editor SACnews

By the way ... I'm Sam Wilcock. Thought it mig...

2009-09-18T11:18:48.630-05:00

By the way ... I'm Sam Wilcock. Thought it might display my name, rather than my blog nickname. In the future I will have to remember to sign my posts.

Thanks for noticing the difference between what we...

2009-09-18T11:16:35.669-05:00

Thanks for noticing the difference between what we know, what we believe with very high certainty, and what we conjecture, or believe with less certainty. These distinctions are important to statisticians (like myself), and what we spend time trying to stress to our students (like physics, chem, bio, psychology, etc. majors) so that they don't look foolish someday when the lines get blurred in their minds. Of course, sometimes that line is blurry for us too, since we tend to have a great deal of faith in the methods we use.

Great post! The blurry lines between inference, co...

2009-09-18T09:18:14.319-05:00

Great post! The blurry lines between inference, correlation, conjectures, etc are a big part of science, especially (or so it seems) in the world of astronomy. Thanks!