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To: BillM

Statistics is mostly definitely a science as its methods conform with scientific method. Each method is tested against another standard.

Science deals with probability and statistics in that date collected is often imprecise and to estimate paramters requires statistical methods. Scient


20 posted on 09/23/2013 7:37:52 AM PDT by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: Hostage

It is not a science. It tells you nothing about individual actions. General chemistry is a science because the sample sizes are so enormous (1 MOLE = 6.23*1^23 molecules).


23 posted on 09/23/2013 7:46:24 AM PDT by BillM (.)
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