Josh writes:
A cartoon inspired by Steve McIntyre’s post on Lew & Mann, and of course all the other posts from everyone else!
I realise the maths/latin title joke might be a wee bit subtle but hopefully it’ll ring some bells.
http://cartoonsbyjosh.com
I thought Mann reached that with his Tiljander sample.
Or has GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out become GIHO – Garbage In, Hockey-stick Out?
If my Android is ruined by the soft drink I just spewed all over it….it was worth it! Josh, you kill me.
Divide by zero and you get Lew’s Hockey Stick?
Cogito ergo dubito…
Cogito ergo smello bulcrapus . . .
I see the cloud but where is the cuckoo in cloud cuckoo land?
Josh – one of your best! 🙂
For the non Latin scholars, “sum” means “I am.”
Love the bells, Josh.
If you insist …? HAERES NEQUIQUAM CAENO CUPIENS EVELLERE PLANTUM – Horace
Johanna, Thanks.
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And here I thought it meant, “Sum’in ain’t right here.”
They are using advanced calculus. The answer is the limit of the value as the amount of data approaches zero.
Well done (as always), Josh!
“…where is the cuckoo… .” (APOBYH at 5:44pm today)
lol, sitting behind the CO2, of course. #(:))
OMG that is funny!!!!! I have seen this up close and personal. I know of folks in certain circles who pull their own calculations out of their ass and call what they have done “statistical analysis”, and then have the balls to defend it as if it is legit!
All Josh’s drawings of Mann make one smile.
Ah. The nothingness of infinity. The very basic tenet of projected climate science. It was in India that the single most important value in the decimal system: 0, was added to mathematical calculations. No wonder Pachauri is such a proponent of projections. Projecting climate warming into infinity is brilliant thinking when it comes to re-upping your grant.
Geez, some of my fellow skeptics here are almost impossible to please.
Consider, with a zero sample size, there is no need to request the methodology of the “adjustments”. Mann has once again avoided FOIA queries.
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Rogerknights @ 7.06pm:
Yes, the look on Mann’s face reminds me of something a long time back, when CSIRO Divisional Chiefs made regular visits to far flung centres to see what their troops were up to. I asked the Chief how come he could go from office to office looking interested in what each scientist was explaining to him. He replied: ‘It helps if you’ve got piles’
Josh is generally good. Thank you.
Abysmal statistics: another instance of “what Lysenko spawned.”
Next Lew and Mann will be working in reciprocal space.
That should make for an interesting cartoon–as both get sucked in while observing their navels.
…..slurp
Then not only could we do without their statistics, we could do without Lew ‘n Mann.
A rearrangement of the words yields a poem:
Our sample size is zip, zilch, nada
We’ve reached the stage where we need no data.
They start with the conclusion and make up the data?
David (in Cal) your bouncy little poem’s rhythm brought to mind this delightful tune which I post here with Josh’s expose of those who have corrupted it,
to celebrate the scientific method!
Take it away, Ella!
“It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it…. that’s what gets {valid} results.”
om mani padme sum
Data? We ain’t got no data. We don’t need no data! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ data!
The above quote was from the movie Treasure of the IPCC-Era Cadre
> who pull their own calculations out of their ass and call what they have done “statistical analysis”,
I prefer the term ‘fundamental data extraction”
Homeopathic science (as practised (practiced) by homies).
StuartMcL says: November 9, 2013 at 10:56 pm (‘fundamental data extraction’) v.v.good!
Climatological Nirvana
or, perhaps, Sitting on Cloud Zero
The Zen of Climate Science
I like your drawing style but you are far too generous to Lew’sky, He really is not that “good looking”. Whenever I see a photo of him, it makes me feel physically uncomfortable.
I think you are failing to capture the essence of the man with your cartoons.
Rationem Vitiosa
“I realise the maths/latin title joke might be a wee bit subtle but hopefully it’ll ring some bells.”
YOU CAN’T RING ‘NOBEL’
Reminds me of the first joke I made up at junior school. A young roman meets a young girl – 1st words : ‘Sum sex’.
Time to go for negative sample sizes. That could bring about some interesting projections.
Josh,
Thanks for clothing them in purplish onesies to hide zero data cult tattoos.
Also, perhaps initiation into the zero data cult for summa cum laude candidates requires purification rites to cleanse their body and minds of data.
Finally. should not their feet be bare in front of their goddess of zero data?
John
Mann no doubt contemplates the future with equanimity, now that the Virginia gubernatorial election has denied Cuccinelli the office. Indeed, he has been quoted as calling the election a referendum on global warming. Presumably, the UVA email vault will not now be breached.
You’ve put in the knobs and the bells, all we need now is for someone to whistle……
I hadn’t noticed but I think the theory fits! That look! Whenever they get that look on their face they are either taking a poop or are thinking about another way to write about “nothing”, make it sound ominous, and get it published.
Thanks, Josh. You made my day!
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Pamela Gray,
Your use of the word poop made me think the word pooh. Which made me think the following.
Josh made Lewandowsky and Mann look like a bumbling pair of purplish pooh bears. Winnie is not likely to be amused. Oh bother.
John
Excellent work as usual, Josh.
To sum up, that’s
Josh: +2
Lew/Mann: Zero, zilch, zip, nix, nada.
As a somewhat more talented Australian than Lewandowski said: banana nirvana manana….
Jon says:
November 9, 2013 at 9:59 pm
It’s called “post-normal science”.
See how easy it is?
Bupkis.
Pamela Gray says:
November 9, 2013 at 6:52 pm
OMG that is funny!!!!! I have seen this up close and personal. I know of folks in certain circles who pull their own calculations out of their ass and call what they have done “statistical analysis”, and then have the balls to defend it as if it is legit!
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Such as the Starfleet cadets over at Curry’s like Webby.
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Pamela Gray says:
November 10, 2013 at 8:10 am
Whenever they get that look on their face they are either taking a poop or are thinking about another way to write about “nothing”, make it sound ominous, and get it published.
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No, like any simians, they’re getting ready to throw their excrement…