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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4545337, member: 93416&quot;]@<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/roerbakmix.100731/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/roerbakmix.100731/">Roerbakmix</a> many thanks for the detailed reply. I suspect we might be at cross purposes here. I would expect people in the medical sciences – (in contexts therefore where controlled experiments rule) – to throw the statistical kitchen sink at their subjects of research. I would be very concerned if they did not. So no criticism at all of your professional activity. Regarding publication of your papers – it depends upon context – in specialist literature I see no problems with leaving terms in well known equations undefined.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gorard was quite specific however in levelling his criticism at people in humanities – and for myself I was talking about historical matters – and that&#039;s way outside anything that is a scientifically controlled experiment. And additionally, people who write for the general public - yet bang out long equations without a key to the meaning of the terms involved - deserve exemplary criticism in my view.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the specific point however, you seemed to support this position</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Surely I read that correctly as saying - ‘any number is as likely as any other’ – which is surely wrong. Doug immediately pointed out numbers like 30 get cultural preference, and a mass of carefully read text followed on - to back that up. I was going a step further by a careful consideration of contemporary monetary metrology. So I stand by my initial position there, I think you were wrong to (appear to?) back [USER=82549]@gsimonel[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T</p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp; For my own part I passed many a happy hour looking into foundations of maths, and I suspect you yourself realize - if we throw that kitchen sink at “any number is as likely as any other” - we quickly sink into paradox. So I am not going to do that – I would be breaking my own code of conduct <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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