Assumptions

Jan 07, 2008 10:30

A long time ago I had someone tell me that a good scientist should discard an assumption every morning for breakfast. I was recently reminded of this while watching an excellent series on thinking about global climate change (if you have a couple of hours, I highly recommend it.) While technically I'm not a scientist by trade, I like to think ( Read more... )

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paradox0220 January 7 2008, 19:47:37 UTC
I can but noone else can read it. :)

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goulo January 7 2008, 20:40:47 UTC
I assume you know the joke about ass-u-me.

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xomox January 8 2008, 15:18:04 UTC
I learned many a valuable thing in my youth by staying up late on Saturday nights to watch Benny Hill. :)

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goulo January 9 2008, 19:24:50 UTC
I recently stumbled upon:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/
which may interest you on this subject.

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pasketti January 7 2008, 22:08:22 UTC
I can't. I tried, years ago.

I stopped writing cursive when I graduated High School, and no longer needed to. Not that my cursive was all that great to begin with...

I was actually shocked to find out that I couldn't do it anymore.

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sheilagh January 8 2008, 02:45:57 UTC
sounds like fun!

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Kinda skramarama January 9 2008, 01:32:01 UTC
I can in a technical sense. However, since I primarily type these days, the muscles in my hands hate me when I try to force them to write cursive. Oh, and it's not that legible either.

How about you? Can you write cursive? Lower-case AND capital letters?

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