AlanK wrote:If you want to make a good impression here, wait until you see a storm coming a week or more in advance. Hit a few of those accurately this winter and your fan base will grow.
MachineHead wrote:Do you mean Alan or Kevin?
Alan only had one post on this thread.
Kevin is the one who thinks he's God's gift to forecasting...
GHOTI wrote:Alank, Your know-it-all attitude is, quite franky, annoying. Chill out and stop being so critical of others. Sorry, but this is a message board, not a venue to diss people--a compunction you really should try to control. Make friends, not enemies. A good way to start: adjust the I'm-smarter-than-everyone attitude, which I know others find off-putting.
GHOTI
com·punc·tion
1 a : anxiety arising from awareness of guilt b : distress of mind over an anticipated action or result
2 : a twinge of misgiving : SCRUPLE <cheated without compunction>
synonym see PENITENCE, QUALM
GHOTI wrote:Alank,
Your know-it-all attitude is, quite franky, annoying. Chill out and stop being so critical of others. Sorry, but this is a message board, not a venue to diss people--a compunction you really should try to control. Make friends, not enemies. A good way to start: adjust the I'm-smarter-than-everyone attitude, which I know others find off-putting.
GHOTI
MachineHead wrote:Do you mean Alan or Kevin?
Alan only had one post on this thread.
Kevin is the one who thinks he's God's gift to forecasting...
AlanK wrote:
If you want to make a good impression here, wait until you see a storm coming a week or more in advance. Hit a few of those accurately this winter and your fan base will grow.
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Slandering your competition does not gain you credibility.
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Since you are proud of your scientific education, you will appreciate what you should do in the case of your earthquake work. If you believe that you have made a major advance in geophysics -- and being able to predict earthquakes reliably would be a huge such advance -- you need to submit your work to a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Argue it with people who know the subect and can criticize if from positions of strength. In your case, your calculatons are exceedingly simple on the scale of what scientists typically encounter. That is not bad, it is a strength -- if they work. If they work, no one will be able to hide that fact.
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If you end up being right, the rewards will be huge -- for everyone.
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In order to get your work taken seriously, you need to subject it to peer review and criticism.
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If you want to be taken seriously, learn to communicate in standard English.
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Ability to communicate clearly matters a lot. No one demands perfection these days, but your posts are hard to read at times. I am not trying to dump on you. Communications skills are worth developing no matter what you do with your life.
If you choose to stick with technical areas, you are also well-advised to avoid making claims like "my theory is published" when it isn't. Credibility is essential if you are interested in being taken seriously as a weather forecaster, earthquake predictor, or just about anything else. You don't get to lose all credibility more than once.
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