What we learned from the East Anglia emails was that they would measure 2% ,cherry pick and then report on the 1% that supported the desired conclusion.
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(Engineers use functional equations)
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... it’s a much easier way to think. Dibert’ s boss is a fan of easier ways to think too! Twitter NPCs are bosses!
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What's that old saying? Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics?
In other words, "Statistics" are not about 100% accuracy. They are used to estimate with differing levels of confidence and error. For planet scale temperature the vast number of measurements affects the error. -
What’s the average temp on this data? How accurate are the measurements? This is one snap shot in time.pic.twitter.com/Gousgu94hF
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Sometimes the n's justify the means.
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Is that the world's first statistics joke?
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It's deflection
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--and if statistical sampling happened to go against their narrative, you'd hear all about how "you can't use statistical sampling for something as COMPLEX as this."
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More likely you wouldn't here about it at all.
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