Quote:
Originally Posted by clintjm
Interview with Micheal Mann on his "tricked" E-mails:
Link:
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
Quoted from the CNN Interview:
"Scientist and Mathematicians often use the word "Trick" in the sense of a clever approach to solving a problem. ... In order to understand the longer term data it needs to be put in the context of the more recent data so that the relative warmth today can be compared to the relative warmth in the past. And so the trick was simply presenting theses two data sets together so that they could be compared to each other."
CNN fails to mention the use of the word "HIDE" the decline.
Does anyone buy this? I never learned the usage of the word trick at University or in my professional career. Talk about SPIN. Why doesn't he just say... "you non-scientific people just don't understand our terminology" |
I have heard the word trick used in this way many times before. I wouldn't say it is common, but it isnt out of the ordinary. Haven't you heard the phrase "______ will do the trick".