"Zdislav V. Kovarik" <kovarik@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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>> [ quot ]
>> ...
>> the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the
>> scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited
>> by another researcher, a measure of a paper’s quality and
>> im****tance.
>> ...
>> In spite of his study, Dr. Grim, who said he would on
>> occasion enjoy more than 12 beers in a night, is not on a
>> campaign to decrease beer drinking among scientists. Why
>> not? His answer: "I like it."
>> [ /quot ]
>>
>> [ wrap ]
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18beer.html?_r=1
>> &oref=slogin&ref=science&pagewanted=print
>>
>> J
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> More quotations, with my comments:
>
> [begin]
> "I was really surprised," said Dr. Tomas Grim,
> the author of the study and an ornithologist at
> Palacky University in the Czech Republic, who
> normally studies the behavior of birds, not
> scientists. "And I am happy to see that the
> relation****p I found seems to be very well
> sup****ted by my new observations in pubs, bars
> and restaurants."
> [end]
>
> An old, old riddle: Who is the medical counterpart
> of a gynecologist? An ornithologist.
>
> And a classic:
> Kdyz deti zlobily, nachlazena pani Cimrmanova na ne kricela
> "Deserte, deserte!"
> To bylo docentu Weiglovi zaminkou, aby obehal vsechny
> videnske cukrarny a zjistil, co tim minila.
>
> But seriously, folks:
> [begin]
> More im****tant, as Dr. Grim pointed out, the
> study do***ents a correlation between beer
> drinking and scientific performance without
> explaining why they are correlated. That leaves
> open the possibility that it is not beer drinking
> that causes poor scientific performance, but just
> the opposite.
> [end]
>
> Well, a scientist should know better. Concerning
> correlation, ever heard of a "third factor"? The common
> cause for two statistically correlated quantities?
> (Try this - from Wikisomething:
>
> Sleeping with one's shoes on is strongly correlated with
> waking up with a headache.
> Therefore, sleeping with one's shoes on causes headache.
> (Third factor: think beer...)
>
> Worse yet, a correlation between two quantities may be torn
> out of a multivariable relation****p: beer consumption,
> overall diet, state of health, sleeping habits, family
> situation, distance from the lab to the pub, company one
> keeps, etc.
>
> And to conclude, Paul Erdos's definition of a mathematician
> is: a machine that transforms coffee into theorems.
>
> Cheers, Slavek(ZVK)
> -----------------------------------------
> To nevite, ze se po pive pomalu blbne?
> To mi nevadi, pane doktore, ja nespecham.
My first reaction was "hmm, ptakovina?" ;)
J
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