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Douglas_Knight comments on Scientific misconduct misdiagnosed because of scientific misconduct - Less Wrong Discussion

44 Post author: GLaDOS 10 June 2011 02:49PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 08 August 2011 08:04:08PM *  1 point [-]

I was not claiming that. That is the thing I said I don't know: "I don't know if arctic animals are quite on the scaling line." This is a precise question about data is that has been collected. I just don't know what the data says. I'm not sure what I meant by "quite." When animals diverge from the scaling line, like primates, corvids, and dolphins, they move to parallel scaling line, not far from the main line.

Incidentally, the scaling line is not a constant brain to body mass ratio, but that the brain mass is a constant multiple of the 3/4th power of the body mass.

Comment author: CaveJohnson 08 August 2011 09:20:48PM *  2 points [-]

Ok than you for clearing that up (up vote), I hope you didn't mind me asking since I wasn't sure if I understood the comment properly or not. :)