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Re: [NAFEX] Californiaâs tree crops are screwed, says new report
- From: Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@opusnet.com>
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- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Californiaâs tree crops are screwed, says new report
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:15:23 -0700
Richard,
As a newspaper reporter I have on occasion had to interview people who talked in a specific science jargon, but when they threw out something like "regression analysis" I would stop and dig until they could define it in plain English. If newspapers print unedited press releases, only the readers familiar with one area of study will understand them. This does not mean simplifying the material, only translating it into words that everyone will understand.
Betty Mayfield
At 09:30 AM 7/25/2009, you wrote:
You're right....I have little clue what they mean by "regression analysis". Does it taste good?
Richard
--- On Sat, 7/25/09, Stephen Sadler <Docshiva@Docshiva.org> wrote:
From: Stephen Sadler <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Californiaâs tree crops are screwed, says new report
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 10:56 AM
The press does tend to oversimplify a bit, and that makes it hard to react to a study based on a for-the-public simplified reporting. I try to go right to the original study before commenting or reporting, but that really is going a bit further than most would want to.
From the lead author of the study: âwe didn't just compare two years, but used regression analysis over the entire available temperature record to obtain representative conditions for those two years. The numbers are just scenario names. In fact we Also used the historic record to obtain the statistical variation of the temperature. That was used to generate 100 repetitions of each scenario year.
All that stuff was too complicated to communicate to the press.â
Yours,
~ Stephen
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard Harrison
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:46 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Californiaâs tree crops are screwed, says new report
The method reported of using 2 specific years 1950 and 1999 is flawed from the get-go IF that was reported correctly. I am going only by what was written at the link.
I think it was a bad subject with doom-and-gloom as the subject line. So I responded to it to try to help balance the subject. I think it was a bad subject and it's time to get back to real fruit production--now, and not chase future theoretical rabbits.
I like fruit. It tastes MUCH better than theory!
Best regards,
Richard
--- On Fri, 7/24/09, Stephen Sadler <Docshiva@Docshiva.org> wrote:
From: Stephen Sadler <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Californiaâs tree crops are screwed, says new report
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 7:17 PM
No opinion or debate follows:
Iâve read the original research much more comprehensive than the press release/report; and am in correspondence with the authors. One might want to read the paper and then specify methodological deficiencies.
It happens constantly, especially in science, that research is simplified to the point where misunderstanding or rationalization is possible. I donât know what a good answer would be. Not everyone can comfortably read original papers. Perhaps trust the abstracts, or read detailed summaries is science-for-the-public journals like Discovery?
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[NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
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Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
Richard Harrison, 07/24/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
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Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
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Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
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- Re: [NAFEX] Californiaâs tree crops are screwed, says new report, Betty Mayfield, 07/26/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report, Stephen Sadler, 07/26/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
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Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
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Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
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Re: [NAFEX] California’s tree crops are screwed, says new report,
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