Re: [tuning] Digest Number 1973

On 3/19/02 1:26 PM, "tuning@yahoogroups.com" <tuning@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:56:30 -0000
> From: "jpehrson2" <jpehrson@rcn.com>
> Subject: Re: Digest Number 1971
>
> --- In tuning@y..., Gerald Eskelin <stg3music@e...> wrote:
>
> /tuning/topicId_35731.html#35739
>
>>> my 'null-hypothesis' answer: experience. the point of
> the 'jerries', to me, is to falsify this null hypothesis, or to fail
> to do so.
>>
>> Clear enough. Shall we carry on?
>>
>> Jerry
>
>
> ***Well, personally I always enjoy falsifying null hypotheses. One
> gets something done in this manner...
>
> I don't very much enjoy, though, failing to falsify a null hypothesis.
>
> That's a real zero.
>
> jp

I agree, Joe. But that's the way Paul sees it. I think its something like
attempting to prove that scoobadobbees don't exist by failing to find any.
Actually, I suspect it has more to do with demonstrating that Eskelin is
full of hot air, and that, I'm afraid, is sometimes not that hard to do.

Seriously, though, I'm grateful to Paul for his help in conducting "my"
search. That's a positive matter all the way.

J

--- In tuning@y..., Gerald Eskelin <stg3music@e...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_35775.html#35775

>> >
> >
> > ***Well, personally I always enjoy falsifying null hypotheses.
One
> > gets something done in this manner...
> >
> > I don't very much enjoy, though, failing to falsify a null
hypothesis.
> >
> > That's a real zero.
> >
> > jp
>
> I agree, Joe. But that's the way Paul sees it. I think its
something like
> attempting to prove that scoobadobbees don't exist by failing to
find any.
> Actually, I suspect it has more to do with demonstrating that
Eskelin is
> full of hot air, and that, I'm afraid, is sometimes not that hard
to do.
>
> Seriously, though, I'm grateful to Paul for his help in
conducting "my"
> search. That's a positive matter all the way.
>
> J

***Why, of course, Jerry. I'm mostly having a little fun, generally
at my *own* expense... I need to study up on how this "null
hypothesis" actually works in a scientific sense...

jp