> I never said this anywhere. You're confusing the practice of science with a blanket statement I never made.
Poorly worded, I wasn't claiming you said it, I was saying you could claim it and you would because you consider it the null hypothesis.
> Before you go on, learn about the impossibility of proving a negative:
I don't need to research Russell's teapot, I'm well aware, that was a poorly thought out statement on my part is all. I didn't mean to ask you to prove a negative.
> Remember -- all I have ever said is that the possibility of a chance outcome cannot, must not, be dismissed, and to a scientist, it is the first possibility to be considered, not the last.
It's not being dismissed. The issue is whether it's just chance; that Buffet's disciples have also done consistently well disputes the null hypothesis. Please actually read what Buffet has to say[1], he's not stupid and he's not ignoring the null hypothesis.
Poorly worded, I wasn't claiming you said it, I was saying you could claim it and you would because you consider it the null hypothesis.
> Before you go on, learn about the impossibility of proving a negative:
I don't need to research Russell's teapot, I'm well aware, that was a poorly thought out statement on my part is all. I didn't mean to ask you to prove a negative.
> Remember -- all I have ever said is that the possibility of a chance outcome cannot, must not, be dismissed, and to a scientist, it is the first possibility to be considered, not the last.
It's not being dismissed. The issue is whether it's just chance; that Buffet's disciples have also done consistently well disputes the null hypothesis. Please actually read what Buffet has to say[1], he's not stupid and he's not ignoring the null hypothesis.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-on-efficient-m...