Artifact

No AFJ, NS is certainly not directional. It seems to go toward mor complexity, but it is in fact a simple artifact. Were you to look at the distribution of complexity (measured one way or another) vs number of organisms (or even species or OTU) you would see a distribution extremely ...

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... are analyzed at high magnification. - There is a complete absence of use of controls to ascertain that what is reported is real and not an artifact. - In fact I really suspect that artifacts must be there because when I see some of the information on the microscope picture I cannot help ...

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... are analyzed at high magnification. - There is a complete absence of use of controls to ascertain that what is reported is real and not an artifact. - In fact I really suspect that artifacts must be there because when I see some of the information on the microscope picture I cannot help ...

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... well-separated on the planet, especially with the "recent" end of the Snowball Period. The Cambrian Explosion is at least partially an artifact of that problem. I don't see why the appearance of vertebrates during that time is any odder or in need of special explanation than the development ...

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... the overall correlation was 0.21. The head size and brain size correlation with the g factor itself, which Gould would have you believe is a mere artifact, is even larger --- 0.60! (Jensen, 1994; Wickett et al., 1996). Further, the brain-size/IQ correlation is predictive from birth. The National ...

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