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<blockquote data-quote="In situ" data-source="post: 69313529" data-attributes="member: 331194"><p>You wrote on your blog : <em>I won’t bore you with a laundry list of my research methods but suffice it to say that I have spent somewhere in the ballpark of 80-100 hours researching this topic.<strong> But most importantly, I’ve looked at all sides of the arguments with an open mind.</strong></em></p><p></p><p>I don't want to be offensive but put things in a perspective here. I am sure this is quite some time invested on your behalf but you have to realize when it come to scientific topics, 100 hours is a drop in the ocean. A typical undergraduate student will spend about 5000 hours just learning the basic stuff in his or her field. That time does not account for high school education, prep. courses, etc nor does it include the time for post graduate studies, such as master or a doctors exam. I am not saying you wrote that to impress, clearly you did not, but still - considering what I just written - to me it is not an impressive amount of time you spent looking into this, considering that and expert in the field typically spends somewhere around 100 times more time (i.e. ~5-6 years full time work v.s. 2 weeks) learning a subject - and then only focused on one or very few narrow questions in his or her field. And when we talk about gray haired and bald guys like Coyne we talk about people that spent around up to 100 thousand hours on these subjects... Therefore, based on how much there is to know and learn, I would say it is virtually impossible to have looked (and understood) "all sides of the argument" in just 100 hours, no matter how open minded one are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="In situ, post: 69313529, member: 331194"] You wrote on your blog : [I]I won’t bore you with a laundry list of my research methods but suffice it to say that I have spent somewhere in the ballpark of 80-100 hours researching this topic.[B] But most importantly, I’ve looked at all sides of the arguments with an open mind.[/B][/I] I don't want to be offensive but put things in a perspective here. I am sure this is quite some time invested on your behalf but you have to realize when it come to scientific topics, 100 hours is a drop in the ocean. A typical undergraduate student will spend about 5000 hours just learning the basic stuff in his or her field. That time does not account for high school education, prep. courses, etc nor does it include the time for post graduate studies, such as master or a doctors exam. I am not saying you wrote that to impress, clearly you did not, but still - considering what I just written - to me it is not an impressive amount of time you spent looking into this, considering that and expert in the field typically spends somewhere around 100 times more time (i.e. ~5-6 years full time work v.s. 2 weeks) learning a subject - and then only focused on one or very few narrow questions in his or her field. And when we talk about gray haired and bald guys like Coyne we talk about people that spent around up to 100 thousand hours on these subjects... Therefore, based on how much there is to know and learn, I would say it is virtually impossible to have looked (and understood) "all sides of the argument" in just 100 hours, no matter how open minded one are. [/QUOTE]
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