Refutation of a Statistical Argument Supporting Coevolution (Origins)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 00:26 (5385 days ago) @ David Turell

David,-Specifically the article is refuting the p of .00015 (ish) that I know you've referenced before. THAT is the weapon it takes away from you. You can no longer use it. -I'm fully aware that the rest of the paper goes on to say that it doesn't disprove co-evolution (and neither did I). And yes, it makes assumptions, but the assumptions it makes are -1. Based on better evidence than was available when Co-evolution was accepted as theory, and -2. They explicitly state their assumptions. IN statistical arguments, you always have assumptions, you have to or you can't simplify the question to a statistical result. -In either case, my overall point is that we can't trust statistical arguments for systems we don't completely understand.

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