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title: The Sympathizer, Does measuring the air temperature near a 21 lane asphalt highway impact measurements?, Physics Stack Exchange, 2019
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source: {'title': 'Does measuring the air temperature near a 21 lane asphalt highway impact measurements?', 'creator': 'The Sympathizer', 'published': datetime.date(2019, 8, 3), 'publication': 'Physics Stack Exchange', 'url': 'https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/139572/does-measuring-the-air-temperature-near-a-21-lane-asphalt-highway-impact-measure#comment1114701_139590', 'text': '"That tiny difference was well within uncertainties.\nThere is no statistical difference between adjusting the temperatures recorded by those poorly-sited stations versus discarding all data from those stations."\n\nThis goes to show a key fault of denialistic thinking: favoring the fact of existence of a confounding variable (here, the thermometer position) over quantification of that confounding variable\'s actual effect on the conclusion, esp.\nwhen such quantification can be and actually has been done.\n', 'html': '“That tiny difference was well within uncertainties.\nThere is no statistical difference between adjusting the temperatures recorded by those poorly-sited stations versus discarding all data from those stations.”
\nThis goes to show a key fault of denialistic thinking: favoring the fact of existence of a confounding variable (here, the thermometer position) over quantification of that confounding variable’s actual effect on the conclusion, esp.\nwhen such quantification can be and actually has been done.
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