[apathy]

You are right, I shot from the hip. Sorry about that.

I also have noprocrast set in my profile so I couldn't go back and edit it (something I thought about doing). I probably would have toned it down if I hadn't requested that Hacker News kick me off after 15 minutes.

Your line of discussion is productive. It's just important that people understand the difference between degrees of belief and degrees of evidence from a specific study and never confuse the two. Trouble is, lots of folks confuse them, and lots of other folks prey on that confusion.

Anyways, sorry for being a jerk.

[tedsanders]

No worries and thanks for the apology. I apologize for my own comments in this thread, which were lower than the quality I aspire to. I had pulled an all-nighter for work and was sitting grumpily with my phone at an airport.