Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote (Bob O'H @ Mar. 01 2008,09:38) | Test Your Irony Meters Here
Gil finds a report of a study where the victimsparticipants were given the same wine, but told it had a different price, and were then asked to rate it. Of course, they rated the more expensive wine as better. Gil says...
| Quote | | In the ID versus Darwinism/materialism debate, who are the most likely victims of this expectations phenomenon? I vote for the Darwinists, because as evidence for design continues to mount at an ever-quickening pace, they seem most determined to prop up their expectations with ever-more desperate storytelling, conjecture, and appeals to the statistically impossible, to denounce their challengers with ever-more vitriol, and to attempt to silence them with ever-more coercive tactics. |
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Gil:
"How might expectations influence scientists when they look at evidence, or look for evidence?"
Sarcasm isn't appropriate here. Gil is reporting an important insight, one that has the potential to revolutionize research in many disciplines. We need to get his insight in front of others. Empires of dogma are about to fall.
But it needs a name. I propose "experimenter bias." Both concise and descriptive. I think it has legs.
I'm working on a book that illustrates the operation of "experimenter bias" in the domain of research into racial differences. My working title: The Mismeasure of Man (catchy, eh?). Nothing will be the same when Gil and I are done with this. In the not-distant future, discourse in science that betrays ignorance of "experimenter bias" and the empirical demonstration of same will become, rightfully, the object of merciless ridicule.
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Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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