More than anything else, I realized, it had to be boring to be crazy, to think the same sequence of thoughts and come up with the same set of bizarre conclusions, to voice those conclusions using the same words, several times an hour, day in and day out.
Carol Schlesinger Livingston, N.J., Feb. 26, 2010 To the Editor: As I read Paul Krugman's and David Brooks's dueling Feb. 26 columns about the health care summit meeting, my faith in the ability of two people looking at the same set of facts and reaching diametrically opposed conclusions has been reinforced.
"However, when you are looking for victims and villains, rather than essential causes, you can examine the same set of facts and arrive at diametrically different conclusions," Mr. Thomas said.
What it did cause me to realize is that all these smart economists and forecasters are looking at the same set of data, and coming to radically different conclusions based on their politics, their temperament and their idiosyncratic reading of history.
Have the authors tried different approaches and come to the conclusions with the same set of genes?
Analyzing four different genes in the same set of 109 cancers allowed us to draw conclusions on the co-amplification patterns of these genes.
Contradictory results also perpetuated cynicism of EBM, "I've seen a few cases where different meta-analyses will draw completely different conclusions from the same set of data analysing the same papers".
Despite such variation in different sets of experiments performed at different times, it is clear that virus infection induced very large and consistent increases of IFN? expression in the same set of experiments, allowing us to draw solid conclusions for each experiment.
This suggests the gamma rays are generated by synchrotron radiation.But a few weeks ago Robert Rutledge and Derek Fox of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), in Pasadena, came up with the opposite conclusion from the same set of data.
The same set of reasons might better support a different conclusion given a change in the context or weighting of the reasons.
