{"id":1797,"date":"2016-03-14T08:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T08:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2016-03-14T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:07:15","slug":"a-bird-in-the-mouth-is-worth-1000-rats-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"A Bird in the Mouth is worth 1,000 Rats in a Box."},"content":{"rendered":"

Good science does not propose rules that are not confirmed by objective observation of nature. Good science reveals nature as it is. If reality contradicts science, then it’s not really science. This is the “Emperor’s New Clothes” phenomenon. If a child correctly perceives objective reality it doesn’t matter how many highly educated people wish to contradict the obvious. For instance, if you drop two balls of unequal weight from a high tower, you will personally k<\/span>\"FallingTubsBathtub\"<\/a><\/span>now about terminal velocity. If you suggest that the heavier ball hits first, everyone in attendance can check your statement. The child who says, “They hit at the same time” is correct, regardless of how many peer-reviewed papers wish to question<\/span> h<\/span>is report. (OK, if you wan<\/span>t to be totally anal retentive, if they are Galileo’s\u00a0balls, used in his free-fall experiments, the ball of larger diameter\u00a0touches a millisecond before the smaller diameter ball.\u00a0That doesn’t change terminal velocity – the phenomenon controlled by earth’s gravity.) \u00a0Likewise, a traditionally trained dog with a bird<\/span> in its mouth is an observable fact. If the science-based training does not lead to a dog pointing and then retrieving the bird, that, too, is observable.
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Contrasting my suggestion that nature trumps opinion, In behavioral science it is “research” that wins the day – regardless of its connection to reality. The ‘findings’ are canonized into an orthodoxy that with each passing research study moves farther and farther away from nature. That means that the child who sees the b<\/span>ird in the dog’s mouth can be dismissed. Who is a child to object to learned scientists producing ‘evidence’ of their findings? The child hasn’t read ‘the literature<\/span>‘ and cannot cite anything other than what it has seen. The scientists use a formula for study that cannot be questioned. Of course they are correct.
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I have a question. If this is science, why no blind trials? If traditional tra<\/span>\"p15\"<\/a><\/span>ining<\/span> is so brutal and ineffective and ‘positive’ methods are effective and kind, why<\/span> not prove it? It should be easy to do. Train up ten English Pointers and put th<\/span>em in <\/span>a fiel<\/span>d<\/span>-trial against traditionally trained pointers. Then have someone ID <\/span>which is which. Then there is no argument. A child should be able to do it, let alone field-trial <\/span>judges with decades of experience. To go one further, why not drag your ten dogs to Kansas in November and hunt pheasants with the<\/span>m? <\/span>Compare them to<\/span> any ten do<\/span>gs trained by top professional trainers. No birds? No good.
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And there you see the flaw. The people who wish to assert academic superiority don’t actually train animals to work in the real world. They never conduct blind trials. They can’t. A blind trial demands the correct application of two differing assertions. One set is trained by traditional means and one is trained with Skinnerian ‘positive’ methods. As scientists have no idea what traditional trainers do, the<\/span>y cannot replicate traditional results. They criticize and demean that which the know nothing about. No blind trials, no proof. Sorry, that is the true scientific way.
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One problem with ‘put up or shut up’ is <\/span>\"GSP_Bird1\"<\/a><\/span>that behavioral scientists do not accept any knowledge from outside their manner of examination. A pointer with a bird in his mouth can be contradicted by a rat in a box. The onus of science is to confirm reality – and as I said, when science contradicts the bird in the mouth, it’s not really science.
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Good science does not propose rules that are not confirmed by objective observation of nature. Good science reveals nature as it is. If reality contradicts science, then it’s not really science. This is the “Emperor’s New Clothes” phenomenon. If a child correctly perceives objective reality it doesn’t matter how many highly educated people wish to contradict the obvious. For instance, if you drop two balls of unequal weight from a high tower, you will personally … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickandtreat.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}