that there's one standard of truth that everybody in science has to follow.
Yes, I think that's about correct -- there should be.
because they are not interesting
Whether a question is "interesting" has nothing to do with single or multiple standards of truth.
The bring the question: `How should a woman assign meaning..."
That's not a question for science. It's a question for a psychotherapist, lay or professional.
that's not a question about which you can write a scientific paper
Correct and I like it this way. Not everything has to be science.
Yes, I think that's about correct -- there should be.
In high-energy physics there seems to be a 5-sigma standard. Does that mean that climate scientists shouldn't say they found strong evidence for global warming when climate scientists don't have 5-sigma's? No. It's quite alright for the climate scientists to use different standards.
Bioinformatics isn't part of medical statistics because the bioinformatics community uses different standards of evidence. It least that's how my statistics professor explained why a distinct bioinformatics community develo...
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