Re: What are the chances of....

On 2009-10-13, The Starmaker <starmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Baron Bodissey wrote:

On Oct 12, 9:22 pm, The Starmaker <starma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Baron Bodissey wrote:

On Oct 12, 5:51 pm, The Starmaker <starma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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And his observation is wrong. Did he make any scientific experments in a lab? Or was he just...looking?
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You have a 3rd grade understanding of science. Much of science is non-
experimental -- in the sense you are using -- but it is "scientific"
nevertheless and fully testable. You only advertise your ignorance and
the absolute paucity of your arguments when you make such egregiously
dishonest statements. LEARN SOMETHING, then come back and argue.

Baron Bodissey
That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar
bowl.
– Jack Vance

I'm doing 'trial and error' here, what more do you want? There are no
requirements to posting here that
are official...even your group faq is...unofficial. Besides, i'm
considering "taking over" this newsgroup..
I'll be making the rules...anything goes.

The Starmaker

If you are content to flap your ignorance for all to see then have at
it. You can join a relatively select group of creatards that we enjoy
poking and prodding so that we can laugh at their howls and growls.

If you believe in 'evolution' then observation should tell you it is the 'ignorant' that flourshies
and reproduces more than the un-ignorant.

When there is a reproductive advantage to being ignorant, we would expect
that to the be the case.

However:

"Deaths due to the four most common cancers—lung, colorectal, prostate,
and breast—have dropped substantially in the United States from 1993
to 2001 in working-aged individuals. However, not all Americans are
equally likely to benefit from those gains. A study published in the
July 8 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute
shows that more highly educated individuals had mortality reductions
in nearly all of these cancers, while less educated individuals had a
mortality reduction in only one of the cancer types." [1]

"Objective: To study the differential distribution of transportation
injury mortality by educational level in nine European settings, among
people older than 30 years, during the 1990s. .... Results: Among men,
those of low educational level had higher death rates in all settings,
a pattern that was maintained in the different settings; no inequalities
were found among women." [2]

"Previous work shows that higher levels of education quality (as measured
by international student achievement tests) increase growth rates of
national income. This paper begins by confirming those findings in an
analysis involving more countries over more time with additional controls..
We then use the panel structure of our data to assess whether the mechanism
by which education quality appears to improve per capita income levels is
through shifting the level of the production function (probably not),
through increasing the impact of an additional year of education (probably
not), or through increasing a country's rate of technological progress (very
likely). Mortality rates complement income levels as indicators of national
well-being, and we extend our panel models to show that improved education
quality increases the rate of decline in infant mortality. In the analysis
of growth, we find a stronger impact of education quality and of years of
schooling in open than in closed economies." [3]

If you're E. Coli, being smart probably isn't worth the investment. If
you're a human, it sucks to be stupid.


[1] http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/07/08/higher.education.associated.with.greater.gains.mortality.reduction.common.cancers
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yg9novw

[2] http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1730212

[3] http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ781062&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ781062
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yj62tzt



Go and try and make some babies and
see what happens....your kind is becoming...extinct.

Is that due to the lower cancer mortality, the lower automobile
accident mortality, or the lower infant mortality?

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