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Thursday, November 11, 2004
The Control GroupAny scientific experiment that wants to hold up to peer scrutiny has to include a control group. While you muck around with a certain set of subjects, attempting to prove your hypothesis, you keep a certain number unchanged. However, you still perform the same tests on them to use as comparison. In drug experiments, the control group is generally given a placebo to discount the affects of psychological healing. The problem with experimenting on our environment, or attempting to prove the cause of environmental changes is that we have no control group to compare to. Or do we? The Speculist points out a Denver Post article that mentions how Mars is also undergoing global warming. When you think about it, Mars is a pretty good control group. Compared with other planets in our solar system it has about the same size and does have an atmosphere. We have robots there now capable of repoting conditions. Futurepundit points to this report on the cycle of the sun. The Sun is More Active Now than Over the Last 8000 Years:
I wonder if there's a connection? Nahhhhh.
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