mother of all face-palms.
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One should also think that a person wishing to critcise scientific concepts would realise that some words have quite a different meaning within that context. "Significant" or "theory" come to mind.
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Even "cure"
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I looked up the OED. "Stochastic: (2) Randomly determined; that follows some random probability distribution or pattern, so that its behaviour may be analysed statistically but not predicted precisely"
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It looks like your man here is quoting a Shorter OED compiled before the 2nd edition OED (1989). Since the latter meaning is first attested in 1917 it wouldn’t have made the first edition by 1928. The pitfalls of appealing to false authority!
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Can’t say I can trace back to the original origin of this enlightening repartee. However it did remind me of a key running gag of last week’s
@Coodabeens : that Aus journos are sudden experts in graphs and tables.
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It is way out of date. Many old words are. Woke for example
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