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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 08:13:36 CDT
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- From: "J. Philip Miller" <phil@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU>
- Subject: Isaac Asimov on meta-analysis (fwd)
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- Joop Hox <A716HOX@HASARA11.bitnet> writes:
- >
- > " I have got the works of all the old masters. I weigh them against
- > each other - balance the disagreements - analyze the conflicting statements -
- > decide which is probably correct - and come to a conclusion. That is the
- > scientific method. At least as I see it"
- >
- > Amateur scientist Lord Dorwin
- > in Asimov's Foundation.
- >
- Some scientists would like to do some of this balancing in a quantitative
- way--and thus meta-analysis was born!
-
- -phil
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