So: the MW paper is NOT about data is
it about calculation methods.
Not exact matches
Previous
methods were only accurate to
about 5 % at best across all wavelengths, whereas the new
calculations give an accuracy of 0.3 %.
According to this
method, the mass of the stars in Andromeda is
about 110 billion times that of the sun, which is in agreement with past
calculations.
However, as I have written elsewhere, the weaknesses with the PISA test design, within - country sampling
methods, test question design, and score
calculations call into question the meaningfulness of the results and rankings, and any inferences made from them
about the quality of a country's education system.
Those
calculations are just not the main focus of spectroscopy in chemistry, and it was essentially impossible before DFT
methods were introduced
about 20 years ago to the computational chemistry community (and with the advent of faster and faster computers the
calculations became more feasible).
This is the diversion they want discussed — who used what sets of data — not the
method of
calculation, which was what McIntyre complained
about and which MW show was a correct complaint.
Most of us skeptics are still waiting to see climate scientists begin to live up to the Feynman definition of scientific integrity and to provide complete transparency
about data and
calculation methods, as well as to respond to the skeptical scientists in the journals.
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This may seem like a nerdy debate
about methods of
calculation but it's much more important than that.
Prior to Statistics Canada recently rejigging its
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