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| Subject: | | Rational Deduction |
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herdtrackerV2
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Mon, Sep 7 2009, 8:23pm
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For every scat sample that was collected and tested and confirmed to be something it was not bigfoot.
It was bison hair, an elk imprint, bear droppings, etc. The rational person would stop guessing bigfoot every time a sample turned up. They would hold their tongue until the results came out.
The irrational person believes that statistics must be on their side. A quarter can only come up heads so many times and a twenty sided dice can only hit the other nineteen numbers so many times. Bigfoot must be the answer soon because he's never been the answer before!
Karl, what I suggest is a lack of leadership amongst people. They see news media and entertainment outlets brilliantly overhash stories. Scientists, REAL scientists, work in labs, live in nice upscale communities, do actual research, only have time to mentor highly likely potential candidates for success. Nobody shows them what the ramifications of failure or error are because there never are any in cryptozoology.
I compare my opinion to watching Unsolved Mysteries as a kid to watching them now and I feel like a dope for believing them in the first place.
CROP CIRCLES??? Give me a break. |
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| Subject: | | Re: Rational Deduction |
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Karl
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Mon, Sep 7 2009, 9:46pm
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I don't believe folks would be out of line claiming that "Bigfoot must be the answer soon, because he's never been the answer before!" Though some may argue that Bigfoot has been the answer all along. The problem is that on a twenty-sided die, Bigfoot might be number 21, and therefore never roll up. Or Bigfoot might be tails on a double-headed coin. It's the curse of the two-headed coin. The fact that nothing ever has come up "Bigfoot" after all these years is a fair indication that nothing ever will come up "Bigfoot".
I believe a good number of cryptid fanatics are far too egocentric to accept any kind of leadership; they want to think out and do things entirely their own way. They want to be the top bananas.
Hey, crop circles are real; people used to make them all the time. (Ordinarily I'd insert a winking emoticon here, but each time I try, Cisco's server boots me off and I have to kill a bunch of cookies to get back on). |
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| Subject: | | Re: Rational Deduction |
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Stu
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Mon, Sep 14 2009, 2:44pm
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Karl, what I suggest is a lack of leadership amongst people.
What I suggest is a deep-seated rebellion against leadership/authority which got the majority of these solipsists so deeply mired in the subject. |
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