Re: virus: The Meme and the Hypothesis

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 02:42:37 -0700


Disregard this entire post. I misread your statement and responded like you
were talking about your experiment and not mine. Obviously time to shut off
the computer for the night -Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Rhodes <proftim@speakeasy.org>
To: Church of Virus <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: virus: The Meme and the Hypothesis

>Nate Hall writes:
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>>It already sounds more easy to accomplish than mine and yields more
>>data. I like it!
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>I like it too! But it'll never pass the Wade Test. There are far to many
>variables that you just don't account for. Unfortunately rigor is seldom
>easy.
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>It also has the weak point of having to rely on peoples memory of past
>events, as opposed to an actual black-and-CRT-green records of their
>behaviors. This problem already `cropped' up in the early diffusion
studies
>and has since been seen as a factor to try to avoid if at all possible in
>any new studies.
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>-Prof.Tim
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