16th June 2005, 7:01 PM
Fox News: We Decide!
Sorry, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, they ALL suck. It's free of any redeeming content. After an hour watching those, I know nothing I didn't already know before I tuned in.
Try BBC. They still have some integrity. Unfortunalty they don't broadcast in the US, so you'll have to settle for their website.
You know ABF, every single time you bring up your resolution we point out you can just boost the size of text to be legible if need be.
I've seen clips of that Pen & Teller show. The various science web sites I visit have all mentioned them in a positive light in the past. Seems they did something along the lines of filling a glass with water from a gardenhose and labelling it as deliiciuos spring water next to something from the tap. Too many people thought the garden hose water was somehow better. Not exactly proof, but it's certainly a vivid demonstration.
Now as for me, I plan on convincing my sister that bottled water is NOT that much purer and is just a scam by just doing a simple scientific test. Easy enough, fill 10 glasses with tap, 10 with bottled, label them all 1-20 (mixed up so the drinker has no idea which one they are drinking). Keep an answer sheet revealing which ones are which with me, and then have someone else (so I don't accidently tip them off with body language or anything) actually perform the test, asking my sister to drink from each glass and say if it's tap or bottled and then writing it all down. Comparing that with the answer sheet we'll see if she did any better than chance. If need be, I'll go ahead and provide two labelled glasses of water so she can get a good taste in her mind beforehand, but they won't be added into the results, those would just be there to aid her in her process. I'm confident that at the end of the test, she will do no better than chance.
Sorry, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, they ALL suck. It's free of any redeeming content. After an hour watching those, I know nothing I didn't already know before I tuned in.
Try BBC. They still have some integrity. Unfortunalty they don't broadcast in the US, so you'll have to settle for their website.
You know ABF, every single time you bring up your resolution we point out you can just boost the size of text to be legible if need be.
I've seen clips of that Pen & Teller show. The various science web sites I visit have all mentioned them in a positive light in the past. Seems they did something along the lines of filling a glass with water from a gardenhose and labelling it as deliiciuos spring water next to something from the tap. Too many people thought the garden hose water was somehow better. Not exactly proof, but it's certainly a vivid demonstration.
Now as for me, I plan on convincing my sister that bottled water is NOT that much purer and is just a scam by just doing a simple scientific test. Easy enough, fill 10 glasses with tap, 10 with bottled, label them all 1-20 (mixed up so the drinker has no idea which one they are drinking). Keep an answer sheet revealing which ones are which with me, and then have someone else (so I don't accidently tip them off with body language or anything) actually perform the test, asking my sister to drink from each glass and say if it's tap or bottled and then writing it all down. Comparing that with the answer sheet we'll see if she did any better than chance. If need be, I'll go ahead and provide two labelled glasses of water so she can get a good taste in her mind beforehand, but they won't be added into the results, those would just be there to aid her in her process. I'm confident that at the end of the test, she will do no better than chance.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)