You can't reason your way into religion, it has to touch you personally. Someone in 1700 Europe would not be able to reason his way into belief that such things as elephants existed. He's have had to visit Asia or Africa to believe.

God is only invisible to those who choose to ignore him.

We aren't though, the reflexive reference would have to be to the noun "intensity" in the summary.

Bitcoins exist. I don't judge their existence. They are just an idea with some possible uses. Bitcoin fans remain insufferable and delusional.

Orders of magnitude are an important part of understanding the significance of sample data, versus error. That's like, high school chemistry stuff. It seems relevant to the fact that they're trying sample incredibly small variations.

Yeah, but the number of times I've brought up something that is important in its relationship to something I understand relatively deeply, without pushing much of an opinion and getting an off topic mod, well they number in the threes or fours, at least.

Noise is "easy" enough to account for, but what about other things that could generate similar signals. like constant gas expansion in the mantle, or whatever? I'd be fascinated to know if they have some tools to help with that.

"Off-topic" tends to be a favored mod of people who don't understand the topic.

Sorry, I'll reply again, I was mistaken about what this meant.

My mistake then. I failed to understand the feature from the name.

Still different from what you actually said, okay? I'll drop it, but be more careful in your phrasing, and don't blame me for it.

Attempts to use objective measures, like identical math tests targeted to identical age groups sorta suggests that, yeah. Even discounting countries with the usual things like "they let their students drop out sooner"(as if we don't have incredible drop out rates here).

... to prove we're not abusing it. Yeah, that's the ticket.

(No, this seems like a possibly reasonable decision, for normal courtish type reasons)

But that strikes me as "Paying for the right to continue using your own property as you wish".

No, that's not a straw man. That's what you said. You said every education system was abysmal, implying the lack of a system was better.

Take responsibility for your own bad argument and don't blame me for pointing out how incredibly stupid it was. You can say "I didn't really mean that"

But no. You gotta go "I didn't say the stupid shit I said, here's me saying something much more reasonable as if it were what I said originally, idiot".

Thank you for your argument. I'm not sure how much I agree with its premises or data, but it's at least useful to reflect on.