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ashnistrikeOf course, when I write it all out as I did earlier, it looks great--grand ideas, long-term plans for the betterment of humanity, theories neatly laid out in provable axioms. Nuh-uh. Science is messy. If I had to name one thing that even good science fiction misses half the time...
A collaborator just sent me a file of data that we've collected concerning the stuff in the previous post. Right now we're trying to find out how older people differ from younger people in their desire-based memory reconstructions, because a bunch of other people have already shown several ways that, as we age, emotions have more of an effect on our reasoning. So we should have two groups of subjects--one mostly born in the 1980s and one born in the 1910s-30s. However, looking at the file, it's apparent that a third group has ...appeared. About ten of our subjects are now listed with birthdays in the 2020s.
So is it an Excel bug, or is it a Twilight Zone episode?
Either way, I think my next experiment is definitely going to have a Time Travel condition.
A collaborator just sent me a file of data that we've collected concerning the stuff in the previous post. Right now we're trying to find out how older people differ from younger people in their desire-based memory reconstructions, because a bunch of other people have already shown several ways that, as we age, emotions have more of an effect on our reasoning. So we should have two groups of subjects--one mostly born in the 1980s and one born in the 1910s-30s. However, looking at the file, it's apparent that a third group has ...appeared. About ten of our subjects are now listed with birthdays in the 2020s.
So is it an Excel bug, or is it a Twilight Zone episode?
Either way, I think my next experiment is definitely going to have a Time Travel condition.
