Total Members Voted: 149
Voting closed: 01/01/2017 01:29 am
Quote from: Dalhousie on 11/30/2017 12:22 amSo 75% of voters in the poll backed the wrong horse. Which just goes to show that polls of technically uninformed people do not and cannot settle the truth of anything, much less make good predictions in repeatable experiments.I've seen too many people, even on this forum, say things like "Well, a majority of the people posting in this thread agree that the Uru Forces of the Mighty Thor actually propel rockets into space, so that means we're all right and you people who quote this 'physics' myth are wrong." Not to that degree, of course -- I exaggerate for effect.The scientific method doesn't care about the majority's opinion. Just about repeatable predictions that are consistently and correctly borne out, and which describe, within acceptable limits, how and why the things we see have the properties they display to us. Majorities that disagree are irrelevant.
So 75% of voters in the poll backed the wrong horse.