Russians are coming

The daily readership of this blog is 0-5. However, some days I find 20-30 visits from Russia. It makes me little nervous.

Approach to Comparative Anthropology - III

Should anthropology involve itself in finding a common underlying theme and social interpretations of data? I think not. Anthropology should only pile up data and do nothing. What is the point? I haven't figured it out.

Closing the blog

May be because of my less intelligence I'm bored. The motivation for this blog was to improve my English skills. By my own assessment I have been a spectacular failure in that objective. I don't like my own words. And five years is too long a time for that project and it has to be scrapped.

Thank you readers and thank you for your comments! I'll keep this blog open for one more day so that you know that I'm closing it.

Guest Blogger: SHE

I would like to welcome our new guest blogger, SHE. He doesn't need any introduction.

Going on semi-retirement

I was thinking of taking a break from blogging. But I held on thinking I may miss many exciting genetic studies on India. Broader and deeper in their approach. But I find the same travesty and propaganda repeated in Watkins et al. 2008 and Zhao et al. 2008 studies. I think I can safely take few years break if people are still talking about standard European and East Asian genetic identities or people study Indian muslims as Shia and Sunni groups when in reality one should have been concentrating on Ashraf,Ajlaf and Arzal divisions. I hope I will not miss much.

Need Help: Theoretical Anthropology

It would be a great help if somebody writes a blog post(and send me the link) on;
- Anglo-Saxon Literalism
- French Philosophical Anthropology
- Chinese Correlative Thought
approaches to Theoretical Anthropology. I would like to see descriptions and differences clearly explained with a case study.

Approach to Comparative Anthropology - II

Justification:
5. Neither language nor culture are neutral attributes.
6. Archaeology has limitations due to;
6.1 Scarcity of data due geographical constraints
6.2 Inability to detect assimilations
Drawback:
7. Founder effect
8. Statistical age calculation methods that aren't real
Method:
9. Creation of nodes based on;
9.1 Observation of consistency of haplogroup distribution across isolated tribes
9.2 Observation of haplogroup distribution in surrounding non-tribal population
10. Fitting comparative philology and archaeology data to the distribution of male and female neutral markers.

Approach to Comparative Anthropology - I

This blog's approach to comparative anthropology takes the following steps.

Data
1. Distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups and mtDNA haplogroups in diverse groups
2. The isolation of these groups in the historical past
3. The common cultural motifs among these diverse groups
Analysis
4. Application of "convergent evolution" or "common beginning" on (3) based on (1)

Guest Blogger: Ibra

I would like to welcome Ibra as a guest blogger. His core field is mathematics but has a varied interest in Anthropology and Linguistics. He is a Canadian of Caribbean Indian ancestry. He belongs to Y-Haplogroup R1a1 clan.

Etruscan view on blogging

An alternate view to the Basque proverb can be found here.

I will admit it. There's a certain sense of unavoidable shame that comes with learning, particularly the kind of open day-to-day learning that a blog can convey. Blogs can be brutally personal, which explains no doubt why some people experience blogger burnout. It's taxing to the ego to make a booboo. We all want to be accepted in the beehive, not shunned as the town heretic. Communication, especially in our day and age is a double-edged sword that is both necessary to explore new answers and seek them out from others, and yet a potential source of embarassment if it should so happen that there's even a chance that you're horribly wrong. There's no such thing as a perfect learner that never makes mistakes. Errors are the very soul of learning. So when you're like me that puts himself out there for the world to see weekly, I too find it hard not to feel a sense of shame when I have to prove myself wrong because of that blasted thing called conscience. And yet, I would be more embarassed as a human being to pretend that I don't make mistakes.

A Basque Proverb

A blog is the appropriate space for those who only want to hear themselves.

Taking a break from blogging

For next two months...

Change in blog name

I have decided to change my blog name. I found the existing name too much defensive and probably cunning. Here I am trying to disprove and sometimes slander some of the existing theories and propose my own theories(or hypothesis). But always reminding my reader my not-so-ideal state of mind. It is something like throwing mud on others after smearing myself with it. It of course stinks and I am not very happy with this.

My defensive state comes from the fact that I do not have a proper education and understanding of the things that I talk about. But so what? I do not have a proper understanding of anything under the sun. And this makes me to believe probably I have an equal understanding of all of the things in my own way of thinking. Some words talk to me very strongly and some not at all. I do not have to bother about the fate of my theory as the rules should take care of them. Probably, I should understand it by myself over time or by others. In my opinion, I should be knowing to the rules of presenting a hypothesis, if not, should have enough common sense to understand its weak points.

Of course, my change of heart must be attributed to, in no small measure, to this study that I came across at Indo-Eurasian_research yahoo group. From the summary;

There is increasing concern that most
current published research fi ndings are
false. The probability that a research claim
is true may depend on study power and
bias, the number of other studies on the
same question, and, importantly, the ratio
of true to no relationships among the
relationships probed in each scientifi c
fi eld. In this framework, a research fi nding
is less likely to be true when the studies
conducted in a fi eld are smaller; when
effect sizes are smaller; when there is a
greater number and lesser preselection
of tested relationships; where there is
greater fl exibility in designs, defi nitions,
outcomes, and analytical modes; when
there is greater fi nancial and other
interest and prejudice; and when more
teams are involved in a scientifi c fi eld
in chase of statistical signifi cance.
Simulations show that for most study
designs and settings, it is more likely for
a research claim to be false than true.
Moreover, for many current scientifi c
fi elds, claimed research fi ndings may
often be simply accurate measures of the
prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the
implications of these problems for the
conduct and interpretation of research.

The article is about research in Medicine. And this of course especially true in the case of Medical studies of Population Genetics the backbone of the farce called Human bio-diversity. I think they want to come out with white medicine, black medicine, yellow medicine...probably, brown medicine or upper caste medicine/lower caste medicine etc...

Well, I believe if this is the case with researches in Medicine what about not-so-scientific field of anthropology. I do not have to explicitly say that I am incoherent. The whole field is.