Killer Robots

Mechagodzilla

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

93% of People Would Trust Orders from a Robot at Work :eek:

This research report only discussed percentages, and percentages are descriptive and not inferential. Further, they did not provide specific details on how their sample was derived, only generalities, which leaves us guessing if the sample data was representative of a clearly identified population, or populations (e.g. HR personnel, employees, etc.), and could be generalised to them accordingly; e.g., was it a convenience non-probability sample, or what? I would also like to know both the significance levels and confidence intervals. And I wonder to what extent the funding sources of this research may have been self-interested in the results, and what precautions were taken to reduce the chance of experimenter effects, self-fulfilling prophecy, etc.?

I could go on and on with such questions, but fortunately I have not had my coffee yet this Pacific Saturday afternoon; and besides, I am doubtful that most readers want to engage in a long, windy discussion on research methods. :pac:

A little background music for our discussion of Killer Robots provided by Rubecula.

Watched an apocalyptic movie last night on the web where a group of powerful American rich guys got together and turned loose thousands of killer robots on the world to reduce the population substantially. Cannot remember the name of the film, but it had a Thomas Malthus plot and solution to population control with a high tech spin.

Fathom wrote: »

Slaughterbots

Whoa, that's a link indeed!