Re: Cohen's Fallacy

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Does anyone recall now how this topic came to be called "Cohen's Fallacy"? It seems increasingly clear where the fallacy lies and it is not with Cohen

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Maury           maury@webtexas.com

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BERNARD L COHEN wrote:



> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Rad health wrote:

>

> > I agree.  It is also not our job to explain your paradox.  I also agree that

> > it is your job to determine the correlations and take them into account in

> > the analyses.  Unfortunately, you have not attempted to determine the inter

> > county correlations, but rather make assumptions about what they are.

>

>         --You do not understand the "Scientific Method". There is no

> requirement that everything must be explained -- that will never happen.

> But there is a requirement that when an observation contradicts the



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