14-08-2013, 12:52 PM
I found this comment this morning:
"... NIST perceives one building. FEMA perceives another. Bazant perceives a third.
Tony Szamboti perceives yet another. Ryan Mackey perceives yet another. Richard Gage perceives yet another.
Each party is using highy fragmented, highly selective sets of observations and measurements to support their claims.
Each party, by using their own highly selective and fragmented sets of observations and measurements, is literally perceiving the building collapses differently than the others."
One wonders if each of the aforementioned stipulated to the same observations and measurements would they come to the same conclusion/explanation? The author of the quote seems to imply this. But even stipulating to what the data is... is not necessarily THE data, the complete set of data.
My position has been to acknowledge that my understanding is based on what I perceive and my limited understanding of structure and physics. All I've ever expected is that others who read my rants make up their own mind and do their own study... or be lazy and just repeat what X, Y, or Z says.
This approach makes debates not simply to win... but to make people think and learn. Everyone can learn something.
"... NIST perceives one building. FEMA perceives another. Bazant perceives a third.
Tony Szamboti perceives yet another. Ryan Mackey perceives yet another. Richard Gage perceives yet another.
Each party is using highy fragmented, highly selective sets of observations and measurements to support their claims.
Each party, by using their own highly selective and fragmented sets of observations and measurements, is literally perceiving the building collapses differently than the others."
One wonders if each of the aforementioned stipulated to the same observations and measurements would they come to the same conclusion/explanation? The author of the quote seems to imply this. But even stipulating to what the data is... is not necessarily THE data, the complete set of data.
My position has been to acknowledge that my understanding is based on what I perceive and my limited understanding of structure and physics. All I've ever expected is that others who read my rants make up their own mind and do their own study... or be lazy and just repeat what X, Y, or Z says.
This approach makes debates not simply to win... but to make people think and learn. Everyone can learn something.