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Why is it that I read papers by other scientist and ask myself why the Journal published that crap it in the first place.

Problem with app. 50% of the papers where I ask myself that is in many cases that the presented data is completely random. A standard deviation which is as big as the value that is shown makes the data useless. Well d'uh. But still they publish their creatively explained data anyway and get a paper in a well known journal.

Why? There is no gain in knowledge because the data could be coincidental. What is the point of science if coincidental things are assessed as valuable pieces of information?

With that mind set I could practically prove anything I want. I could raise a data set about the existence of my foot in your ass nose pimples and conclude that everybody has them because my three subjects had them. Or even worse I could conclude that everybody has my foot in their collective ass nose pimples because one of my three subject had them. Horrid.

I am all for educating scientist better in statistics. Because even if you obtain data from more than three people it could be a random scatter and not a normal distribution.

But hey many biologists don't check their statistics because they are lazy bastards. They just make experiments and publish them without ever realizing that data which they obtained might not have any relevance at all because they did not have the nerve to learn a little bit of statistics. It is really naive to assume that chance isn't influencing your data and under these circumstances it is very difficult to have any gain in knowledge. Even though nothing in life is sure and experimental data isn't, good statistics can make them fairly reliable.

Subrosam is probably laughing his ass off right now because my remarks about statistic are really superficial but I've read so many faulty papers in the last week that I had to say something publicly.

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As I am going to move next weekend and still need some time to get used to the new situation I'll be offline for some more time.

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Go read it!

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In Flames- Leeches (http://www.inflames.com/)

Leeches like leeches "in ignorance we trust"
if you say this way i will take that way
fuel for the fire on which I thrive
Spit me out, I'm glad I don't belong
Save me the speech, you'll be forgotten and gone

It burns it rips it hurts
Leeches, they preach to us words of wisdom from blocked minds
Spit me out, I'm glad I don't belong
Save me the speech, you'll be forgotten and gone

It burns it rips it hurts, they make you bleed your turn
The chance of a lifetime, how does it feel to be alive?

A tear for the poet that can't be heard
praise the artist that steals.

Spit me out, I'm glad I don't belong
Save me the speech, you'll be forgotten and gone

It burns it rips it hurts, they make you bleed your turn
The chance of a lifetime, how does it feel to be alive?

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Spring has arrived, how nice.
Today I read the page of Dragonmeet 2008. It sounds good and it's been awhile since I've visited London so that would be a good opportunity. I'll go an check if there are any cheap flights and hostels.

Question for today: What do I want to become? And to what purpose?

Memo to self:
- Inner child
- Da Squad
- Malachia 
- das 1. Monster
all want to be completed so go and be that girl.