Here is a case in-point.
"Looking for the Link", By GINA KOLATA
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/weekinreview/11KOLA.html?8hpib
Quoting from the article:
"Dr. Winn, like many other scientists, said that the quest for environmental causes of cancer - from chemicals in the water to electromagnetic fields near power lines to radiation from a cellphone - may be more daunting than the public realizes. Conclusive evidence that any of these things increase one's risk of cancer has never been found, despite repeated studies. And even if there is a link, several experts said, it may be beyond the capacity of science to find it."
"BUT what if the risks are very small and the exposures took place in the distant past? Then, Dr. Gammon said, it can stretch the limits of science to try to find an association."
[Quotes Copyright 2002, by the New York Times.]
Census, and other historical, data can be used to cross-correlate individual instances with respect to personal experience.
With respect to a group-wise problem, use of such experience-correlated data is analogous to enriching one's individual experience with respect to variations in WDB2T's one 'map' of Truth - analogous to delineating local WDB2T minima - so that Truth can be discerned.
Can you see it?
The census [etc.] data maps entry, exit, and duration of experience, with respect to environment, and, if there're chemo-correlates of disease processes within an environment, and if the correlation is 'time'-proportional, then, in the differential-experience 'map' provided by the census data, there is the means to apply the 'same' differential within the analysis - which will make disease-correlates stand-right-out.
Anyway, this sort of thing is why I routinely 'jump-right-in to discuss this or that problem, without much 'caring' about relative-'recklessness'.
Doing such provides stuff analogous to the 'census data' - like with the 'stock market' rx to what was 'perceived' as my 'error' with respect to the 'oscillations' stuff, last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday [6-9 Aguust].
Such allows one to 'See-through' the 'fog'.
"Xray 'vision'" :-]
My 'heart' is 'heavy' as I write what's here, but, in the end Hopeful.
I've long understood that some folks get 'alarmed' when I do stuff like this, but all I'm doing is what needs to be done - eliminating 'the Beast', Abstract Ignorance.
You know, just more 'heavy-lifting' stuff that has as its goal freeing folks from the Savage, Slaughtering, Destructive 'dictates' of 'prejudice'.
It's a Joy-thing. It only 'seems' 'fearful' be-cause of its relative unfamiliarity.
Soon... "Free at last. Free at last. Great God Almighty, [we'll be] Free at last!" [Martin Luther King]
The 'catch' is that, while one can point the way, individuals must go 'to the mountain top and see the promised land" [ibifd] through their own Free Will.
Like in the old Johnny Cash song, "The Reverend Mr. Black" [ I believe it was]: "You've got to walk that lonesome valley by yourself."
Anyway, yes, I am being a bit deliberately-'obscure' with respect to what's here, because it's best to go-through what's here 'quietly', and at one's own pace.
Cheers,
k. p. collins
Kenneth Collins wrote in message ...
>There's an interesting article, "The Odds of That", By LISA BELKIN,
>in today's New York Times Magazine.
>>The Author correctly [in my view] recognizes that extreme positions
>with respect to 'coincidence' are equally untennable.
>>So, what gives?
>>When can it be said that 'coincidence' correlates with meaningful
>synchrony?
>>My approach to answering this Q entails databasing over the
>long-term, then analyzing the data with respect to long-term
>coincidence.
>>The longer the term within which coincidence holds, to the degree
>that coincidence does clearly [not having to be 'debated'] hold, the
>greater is the cross-correlation inherent in the 'coincidental'
>synchrony.
>>This's exactly what NDT holds is the case with respect to the
>development of the "prefrontal force" [AoK, Ap7], although, in the
>mechanism of volition, there is active driving involved ["meta
>motor-dominant" and "meta sensory-dominant" information-processing
>"phases", AoK, Ap7].
>>The biggest 'caveat', inherent, is that 'coincidence' can be
>'engineered' so that there is an appearance of there being
>'meaningful' synchrony.
>>Such calculated 'deception' exists throughout nature. Moths and
>birds, for instance, rely on 'protective coloration' through which
>they 'synchronize' their appearances with elements in the
>environments in which they exist. Chamelion [sp :-] are champions at
>such 'engineered' synchrony.
>>Humans do the analogous thing within the realm of routine experience,
>in order to 'gain advantage' within the 'social' millieux.
>>So, even though long-term repetitive 'coincidence' constitutes
>'valid' synchrony, such does not, necessarily, coincide with Truth.
>>To ascertain Truth, requires long-term databasing with respect to
>individual correlates with respect to 'coincidence'.
>>This last thing is so energy-consuming that it tends to make the
>problem Hard, in terms of rendering the work inherent non-polynimial.
>>Which is why I 'just' go with Truth.
>>Avoids much, if not all, the Waste that's inherent in 'engineered'
>synchrony.
>>Also tends to leave one 'alone' because one's non-participation in
>routine 'deception' is experienced as 'unusual' within the 'social'
>milieux, which induces folks who're familiar with 'deception' to
>'move away from'.
>>All of the basic [Maths] stuff inherent in the above applies within
>the nervous system, itself, and to the question of neural-synchrony
>that's being discussed on the board.
>>So, although the question of there being synchrony, or not, is easy,
>questions with respect to the meaning inherent in such neural
>synchrony remain Hard.
>>Which, again, is why, long-ago, I decided to go with Truth -
>eliminates the waste inherent in problem-solving.
>>Doesn't solve the problem of being-alone, though :-]
>>k. p. collins
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