john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) (08/04/90)
Pete Zakel (phz@cadence.com) writes: +-- | ...the nectar I use (Perky-Pet nectar mix)...goes *much* | faster than the regular stuff +-- How do you know that it's the composition of the solutions that causes this preference? How did you eliminate such variables as the locations and designs of the feeders, the relative sweetness, temperature, and so on? Pardon my skepticism, but I had a course in experimental design once, and it convinced me that it is extremely difficult to design an unbiased experiment. Anecdotes like this are a long way from proof. -- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, NM/john@jupiter.nmt.edu ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber