I am looking at a claim in a scientific paper. The word “all” in such a claim is universally interpreted by doctors and scientists as being universally quantified. That is how other scientists interpret it when they cite a paper. That is how the FDA treats it when they deny you a drug or a medical procedure.
This is not everyday language. This is a claim to have rigorously proven something.
Even if you don’t focus on the word “all”, which you should, but I accept that you are ignorant of how scientific discourse works, it is still the fact that the paper did not provide ANY evidence that food dye does not affect behavior. You can fail an F-test for a hypothesis even with data that supports the hypothesis.
(...) “all” in such a claim is universally interpreted by doctors and scientists as being universally quantified (...) I accept that you are ignorant of how scientific discourse works
Not universally interpreted by doctors and scientists. I’m gonna go ahead and say that you have no idea what you’re talking about and go off of what you think “all” should mean in ‘all’ the sciences, not what it defaults to in actual medical papers. Context!
No medical publications whatsoever can use the “all” quantifier without restricting the scope, implicitly or explicitly. Whenever you find an “all” quantifier without a restriction specified, that’s at best a lazy omission or at worst an automatic error. What, a parasympathomimetic drug will slow down a subject’s heart rate for all humans? Have you checked them all?
“Scientists” publishing in medicine don’t get all excited (oooh an “all” quantifier) like you whenever they come across a claim that’s unwisely worded using “all” without explicitly restricting the scope.
Bowing out, I’ll leave you the last word if you want it.
I am looking at a claim in a scientific paper. The word “all” in such a claim is universally interpreted by doctors and scientists as being universally quantified. That is how other scientists interpret it when they cite a paper. That is how the FDA treats it when they deny you a drug or a medical procedure.
This is not everyday language. This is a claim to have rigorously proven something.
Even if you don’t focus on the word “all”, which you should, but I accept that you are ignorant of how scientific discourse works, it is still the fact that the paper did not provide ANY evidence that food dye does not affect behavior. You can fail an F-test for a hypothesis even with data that supports the hypothesis.
Not universally interpreted by doctors and scientists. I’m gonna go ahead and say that you have no idea what you’re talking about and go off of what you think “all” should mean in ‘all’ the sciences, not what it defaults to in actual medical papers. Context!
No medical publications whatsoever can use the “all” quantifier without restricting the scope, implicitly or explicitly. Whenever you find an “all” quantifier without a restriction specified, that’s at best a lazy omission or at worst an automatic error. What, a parasympathomimetic drug will slow down a subject’s heart rate for all humans? Have you checked them all?
“Scientists” publishing in medicine don’t get all excited (oooh an “all” quantifier) like you whenever they come across a claim that’s unwisely worded using “all” without explicitly restricting the scope.
Bowing out, I’ll leave you the last word if you want it.