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You, personally, are as intelligent as anyone in cyber-Seattle. This silly "wiggle room" plausible-deniability argument is not.
It isn't IQ that allows us to judge the merits of a new hypothesis. It's objectivity.
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James creates a system that predicts UP/DWN seasons from 1876-2009, with stunning precision, and your response is "well, maybe baseball will be different in 2010 ff than it has been so far. After all, the weather changes."
Very seldom an argument at MC/SSI hits me the way that one did.
I'll give you the last word. :wanders off: