So how many cows would be required to equal the amount of methane that scientists have observed on Mars? "Depending on which observations I am looking at, that number is close to 5 million cows, or roughly 200,000 tons of methane production per year," Chizek reported.
What all this adds up to, or indeed whether it all adds up to anything at all, depends on which observations you trust and your theoretical presumptions about particle physics and the nature of dark matter.
She added that if a ward gets busy, the system reminds staff which observations are due and helps her manage the ward by providing information about where to focus attention.
But that fatal ability should not hide the fact that well-applied theories, beautiful and otherwise, can play a crucial role in deciding which observations get treated as facts in the first place.
Even falsifiability, the benchmark for positivist science, rules out many of the legitimate theoretical claims of cutting-edge physics, and rules in many wacky claims, like astrology — if the proponents are clever about which observations corroborate their predictions.
Estimates of the age of Population II stars have varied over the years, depending on the degree of sophistication of the calculated models and the manner in which observations for globular clusters are fitted to these models.
Mitchell was scrupulous not to foreground his own opinion or to judge; the stories are, without exception, however, profound examples of the writer's ability to move and engage and amuse the reader, simply through the skill and care with which observations are made and quotations are put down.
The levels of similarity at which observations are merged are used to construct a dendrogram.
Such applications include many parameters and require robust models from which observations can then be compared.
We first argue that the order in which observations and interventions are introduced is very important.
Therefore, in general, the optimal designs depend on the extent to which observations within one block are correlated.
