[Taxacom] RES: south-west Australia

[Curtis Clark]

On 6/22/2011 9:35 PM, Michael Heads wrote:
> You can use it in any of the standard ways and people will know what you mean from the context.
How did Robin mean it? How did John mean "null hypothesis"?

Panbiogeography can only seem esoteric, and subject to marginalization, 
if it uses technical terms commonly used by other biologists, but with 
different meanings, and without the differences being clarified. It's 
easy for the rest of us to assume "track", for example, to be a 
specialized term in panbiogeography, since it has a multiplicity of 
meanings in standard English, but most of us with a biometrics 
background would assume we know what "degrees of freedom" and "null 
hypothesis" mean, and would only be puzzled, and I admit put off, by 
what would seem to be redefinitions.

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Curtis Clark
Cal Poly Pomona