[118364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Science vs. bullshit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Oct 20 10:37:48 2009
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:36:10 -0400
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jim Cowie <cowie@renesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <6762a99d0910191659q765fe7a2s489f2ceb25dbe127@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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> The thing about the data I presented, however, is that it is _differential_
> ... it says "set your knobs, look at four days over four years, and let's
> see if the migration among populations seems consistent."
as we discussed this morning, this has the problem of not knowing how
much of the change is in the lens through which you are looking and how
much is in that at which you are looking.
bgp is way too damned good at information hiding.
randy
