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| Personal background |
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I live for science. It fascinates me. By trade, I am a real Criminal Profiler.
There has always been a problem with profiling in the early day in the FBI (deductive profiling. I use Inductive profiling or another word for it is Behavioral analysis of crime scenes (a way to have any lay-person be able to reproduce the same results as I produce).
Using the scientific method, it is a way to NOT accuse the wrong person. The deductive way makes assumptions and lands innocent people in jail or prison all the time.
Here is an example of deductive thinking:
Neighbor 1: "Hi, there, new neighbor, it sure is a mighty nice day to be moving."
New Neighbor: "Yes, it is, and people around here seem extremely friendly."
Neighbor 1: "So what is it you do for a living?"
New Neighbor: "I am a professor at the University; I teach deductive reasoning."
Neighbor 1: "Deductive reasoning-- what is that?"
New Neighbor: "Let me give you an example. I see you have a dog house out back. By that I deduce that you have a dog."
Neighbor 1: "That is right."
New Neighbor: "The fact that you have a dog leads me to deduce that you have a family."
Neighbor 1: "Right again."
New Neighbor: "Since you have a family I deduce that you have a wife."
Neighbor 1: "Correct!"
New Neighbor: "And since you have a wife, I can deduce that you are heterosexual."
Neighbor 1: "Yup."
New Neighbor: "That is deductive reasoning."
Neighbor 1: "Cool."
Later that same day
Neighbor 1: "Hey, I was talking to that new guy who moved in next door."
Neighbor 2: "Is he a nice guy?"
Neighbor 1: "Yes, and he has an interesting job."
Neighbor 2: "Oh, what does he do?"
Neighbor 1: "He's a professor of deductive reasoning at the University."
Neighbor 2: "Deductive reasoning-- what is that?"
Neighbor 1: "Let me give you an example. Do you have a dog house?"
Neighbor 2: "No."
Neighbor 1: "Fag."
Inductive reasoning only uses facts, no guess work. My web site is http://www.behavioral-sciences.org. My CV is located under resume containing most of the books I written (another one in the works as of June 2005) and about me by other authors and so on.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Back to why I love SETI. As the line goes “…if we are the only life in this vast universe, it’s an awful waste of space...†(From the movie “Contactâ€).
I have a complete setup at my home. Nine computers run the SETI@HOME project (Now know as BOINC) as well as my own radio telescope (pictures of it are also on my web site).
I know there is life out there. Not like us, but life none the less.
And I am going to find it!
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