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Any science broadcast that takes in the need for experimental trials, control groups, placebo effects Hack #73 incidentally and the dangers of overgeneralising findings is good by me.
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Any science broadcast that takes in the need for experimental trials, control groups, placebo effects Hack #73 incidentally and the dangers of overgeneralising findings is good by me.
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Wittgenstein's warnings against premature theorising and overgeneralising, and his insight that many everyday terms pick out families, should mandate caution over expecting a complete and unambiguous specification of what constitutes a necessary, or a sufficient, condition.
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions Brennan, Andrew 2003
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My personal experience relates to TV news in a country that's not the US, so I'm probably overgeneralising in a way that will upset somebody see above :) ).
Thank God for the Mainstream Press Rogers 2007
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