In a message dated 8/14/99 1:43:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, hlthpro at home.com
writes:

<< In other words, there is a 95% or better chance
the researcher's conclusions are correct (or 5% or less chance of error).
While researchers might strive for absolute certainty, they can never
achieve it as there is no p=0. (And in my mind, p=0 is absolute proof.)
>>

Science is real to me. Religion isn't. Gravity has been scientifically proven
to exist, though no one can measure it, nor produce it, nor control it. The
best form of finding out that it exists is to do something to test the
hypothesis. If you go out onto the Narrows Bridge, and holding the thought
firmly in your heart that gravity doesn't exist because there's no scientific
proof...and then jump............I'm certain you will discover that though no
one can hold a cup of gravity in their hands, it still exists.

Michelle