Re: Lenski experiments: an important correction

On 11/05/2024 11:27, jillery wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2024 23:22:32 +0100, Ernest Major
<{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:
 

On 10/05/2024 23:00, Arkalen wrote:

On 10/05/2024 23:05, Ernest Major wrote:

On 10/05/2024 21:31, Arkalen wrote:

I recently found out that Richard Lenski of the eponymous long-term
E.coli evolution experiment had a blog, and in it I found a
correction I thought was relevant to the way those experiments are
typically invoked as evidence in evolution/creationism debates:
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https://telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/a-small-correction/
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I hope we'll all have the integrity to take this new information into
account properly.

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Did you look at the date? I suspect it's an April Fool. (Or did you
identify it as an April Fool, and ran with it?)

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I did eventually figure it out but I'm embarrassed to admit which
paragraph it was at.

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I'd read the whole post before I figured it out. It didn't make sense,
which caused me to look at the context.

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(also the previous post isn't at the same date but I also suspect isn't
completely in earnest. I think maybe Richard Lenski might be a funny guy)
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(EDIT I'm keeping the previous parenthetical for integrity's sake but
the previous post actually *is* at the same date. How am I such a, um,
what's the term again, "hard-working student")

 
 
Yes, an understandable and simple misunderstanding; no need to assert
personal limitations here.
 
 

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Yes, misunderstanding things is completely normal and human. That's why
it's important to keep the possibility in mind when raising the
emotional stakes of a discussion to avoid getting trapped in a cycle of
escalation where admitting to a misunderstanding becomes impossible
without losing face.