Heh, this is from a commenter at Slashdot on Cook’s fatally flawed 97% consensus paper. While a bit harsh, it’s also funny. He responds to:
Yeah! It’s like saying that 97% of priests believe in god anyway.
by Razgorov Prikazka (1699498) on Friday May 17, 2013 @11:52AM (#43753313) says:
I agree, and it goes further than just priests! Here are some interesting factoids for you:
97% of the children believe in Santa
97% of paranoid believe they are being followed
97% of the homoeopaths believe in homoeopathy
97% of the astrologists believe in astrology
97% of the KKK think lynchmobs are a good thing
97% of the intelligent design gang are absolutely convinced that God made it all
97% of all the interviewed Zen buddists were convinced it is possible to clap with one hand
97% of the paganist movement think sandals are fashionable
97% of the physicians didnt believe in washing their hands before doing surgery
97% of the politicians think they are doing some great things
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I’ve added a few.
97% of dogs believe in hanging their noses out car windows
97% of cats believe in long naps
97% of Playboy models believe in taking all their clothes off
97% of cooks believe in cooking with heat (the rest are sushi chefs)
Readers are welcome to add to the list
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The sun, the moon,and the truth will rise,
I just kind of assume people who really obviously and crassly lie to me are probably not really on my side.
Maybe it’s just me.
95% of cats prefer ‘Happy Cat’ (paraphrasing an add for cat food in the UK).
My cat does not, he prefers ‘Even More Happy Cat’
I am one of the 3% that’s actually quite a bit larger. Am I like my cat?
97% of potato growers thought that Lysenko was right.
What’s the difference between Climatologists and Astrophysicists in Cambridge (UK, I mean).
97% of the climatologists know they are right and get the lovey-dovey Nobel Prize (kind of).
97% of the astrophysicists know they are right, but its the odd-one out who gets a real Nobel prize.
97% percent of property insurers think that we should buy cover against the effects of climate change.
Considering last 16 years…
97 % of climate scientist are wondering murphy’s law…
CO2 is found inside greenhouses and greenhouses are warm, therefor, using the special rule of “climate logic” 97% of the warming is caused by CO2.
97% of water on earth is saltwater.
97% of the employees who work for the IRS are liberal, progressive democrats.
and, 97% of them take no conservative prisoners.
97% of scientists who believe in global warming also believe human carbon dioxide emissions contribute to global warming. 100% of mathematicians call this a dimensionless quantity. I checked.
In dimensional analysis, a dimensionless quantity or quantity of dimension one is a quantity without an associated physical dimension.
97% of my beer has been consumed, I’m now working on the 3%. 😉
“philjourdan says:
May 18, 2013 at 7:20 pm
Wamron, give it a break. Anecdotal evidence is as good as TIm cook’s statistics. I can see why some Germans do not like you. However, until you have talked to a vast majority of them, you have no case.
And your rants are a distraction.”
Phil Jourdan
You sound like a VERY BOOOOOOORING PERSON.
Your comment is boring because I could have written it myself…when I was a boring twenty-something. However, I find life is only liveable if you inject some attitude. Of which you appear to have none. Choose lifeless and colourless and tasteless if you wish, but my experience is 97% or more of what counts for me.
HOWEVER…what you say is also thoroughly flawed. Observational evidence is not “anecdotal” when it generates and can be confirmed by predictable repetition. Anecdotal evidence is the reported observation which cannot be repeated whereas what I report are observations which can be repeated by anyone who cares to go to Berlin and make such observations. I say Berlin because, well, as in most things it may be that the city is different to the rest of Germany and I realise I have again generalised from the unique location to the country it represents an exception to. .
Anyway, that repeatability is a basic tenet of Popperian falsification. Which I will come to, but not yet……………Firstly you unambiguously exhibit poor comprehension skills and invert what I quite clearly stated: I actually said that the Germans I referred to said they LIKED me, but that I am the only English person they had met who they did…..180 degrees opposite of what you thought Id had written. Fail on your part.
Secondly, I never made my comments apropos ALL Germans (as the line referred to above indicates, had you shown primary comprehension skills when reading it).Fail again. I guess you can also find English people who dont hate Germans, myself for example. But for Dirk H to say that he can generalise from his own self to that of all Germans is as absurd as my denying that upwards of half of all English in any opinion survey state a dislike of Germans on the grounds that I dont myself.
Thirdly, I’m not talking about incidental Germans, but the actual experience of actually being In Germany a large part of my time. Whilst being screamed at by a woman in a peaked cap because I asked if she spoke English tends to make an impression. Your predictable whine of “anecdotal evidence” is somewhat jejeune given the Popperian validation of my hypothesis by its predictive capacity. And such “II do not speak English, this is Germany” rants do occur predictably.
Fourthly, its Germans themselves who tell me they hate the English. Is it “anecdotal” of someone to declare what they believe their own attitude. Well whether we can really know what we really feel is a question, but you are pushing the boat out there. When a guy says in good humoured tone “Agh, you are English, I hate the %^^$&* English” he either speaks literally for what he knows about himnself, or ironically for what he knows of others among his community.
Fifthly, surveys support what I say. More worryingly, that at least a third of all Germans (not just Berliners) are as anti-semitic as ever.
Sixthly..you are boring. Maybe I mentioned that, but its worth repeating. If I cannot poke you with a stick and see you jigger then whats the point? What are my “rants” a distraction from? The efforts at trying to be humorous displayed by the majority of people here are suicidally dull and witless. Have you got something brilliant to add? Come on, show us your irons.
…oh yeah, you aint actually Phil Jourdan either, he aint so boring, and adopting a less boring persons name just shows how aware of being boring a person must be!
97% of Austrians believed joining Nazi Germany was a magnificent idea
97% of donuts are eaten by cops
97% of spitballs are made of spit and paper
97% of residents of Babylon 5 believe Ivanova is god (bad example, because everyone knows she is god)
97% of bees prefer honey
97% of bears prefer picnic baskets
97% of trees have barks
97% of dogs bark at trees (there is a connection I tell you)
97% of cats are out to kill you
97% of humans dismiss this thought as ridiculous (until their cat kills them)
97% of posters here are having too much fun with this
As for the Germans, which seem to cause some kind of ruckus… Let me put it this way: 200,000 Germans protested against nuclear power in the wake of the Tohoku quake and tsunami, while the German media compared Fukushima #1 with Hitler’s bunker and said that minors, foreigners and homeless people were pressed into service by TEPCO for cleaning up there. No Germans protested against the North Korean nuclear test. German media cried murder over the Japanese daring to vote for the LDP and NInK over the DPJ and several anti-nuclear parties, but they remain dead silent over Chinese aggression in Japanese waters and territorial claims (latest claim: Okinawa; a Hong Kong pro-politbüro paper claimed that Okinawa is Chinese territory.) So don’t make me start on them.
97% of election results with a 97% margin of victory were rigged.
97% of dogs prefer dog food.
97% of Kilroy was here.
Edohigima….are you Japanese? We only drifted off onto Germany because of the point that post-communist communities do not necessarily welcome their freedom, that being indicative of (in my contention) the likelihood that CAGW ideology will remain in force in the West irrespective of any rational refutation of its basis.My underlying point being that to try to counter CAGW propaganda by argument is futile.
And just for the record, I dont care what Germans (or Berliners) think about anything, whether they hate my nationality (which I do to, as I thoroughly detest and loath the English) or even their calling me “untermensch” in Kaisers……..I still love them!
…but I understand and sympathise with your point. I just think it says more about the mentality of the Left. They scream blue murder over soldiers disposing of damaged books but say nothing about 100 million girls being genitally mutilated according to the directives of said book.
Wamron says:
May 19, 2013 at 9:42 am
Megaphonitis?
“mogamboguru says:
May 19, 2013 at 9:58 am
Wamron says:
May 19, 2013 at 9:42 am
Megaphonitis?”
No, narcissistic personality traits, and I am not ashamed of it.
97% of American murderers ate potatoes in the three days prior to killing their victims. This obviously means that . . . QED.
(This was a running joke with me and my old Army buddies. 43 years ago.)
Steve Garcia
97% of climatologists on the Gummint nosebag believe in some sort of imminent catastrophe with certain riders and disclaimers-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/19/climate-change-meltdown-unlikely-research?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
9 out of 10 prison inmates enjoy gang rape.
At 20 I also learned to be mouthy. At 40 I learned when to speak and when to stay silent. A bit of wisdom you have yet to learn.
97% of Tea Party groups that applied for tax free status are still waiting to hear if they’ve been approved.