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The kindly Rev. overheard pjberg@webtv.net (Paul J. Berg) saying on
Tue 26 Jun 2007 03:38:17p: 

> "Evidence suggests that the increased harassment program this year
> did not have an overall substantial impact on reducing predation
> in the tailrace below Bonneville Dam nor the number of sea lions,"
> the Corps of Engineers concluded.
> "Whether or not more salmon would have been taken without this
> effort is unknown."

Whereupon his head exploded?

Let's repeat that slowly: evidence suggests harassment didn't have an 
impact on reducing predation (first sentence), but, they don't know 
whether harrassment had an impact on reducing predation (second 
sentence)?

OK, *maybe* the results refuted the null hypothesis at the 0.10 level 
but not the 0.05 level and the reporter is the moron.

But what I think *really* happened is that the Corps of Engineers 
doesn't know how to design an experiment. No, wait. Somebody in the 
Corps of Engineers does know how to design an experiment, but some 
political appointee decided that it says in the Bible that harassment 
must work, so he took the funding for measuring the results and sent 
it to the Creation Museum.
-- 
Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
revbob at crispen dot org
Ex Cathedra weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/

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