I had a friend in visit yesterday. He likes to see himself as a neutral wrt AGW but he is more (my opinion) on denialist side. I showed him
SkepticalScience site as the place where he can read more about "arguments" he use.
I don't have time for that, he said.
I showed him
Petition, he responded with a curse.
I showed him this topic and he asked: When there is no metric, 'magic' enters - what does that mean?
Being aware that AGW stuff is not gonna work with him I took different approach:
Many employers gets salary based on a measure of their efficiency.
He agreed.
We have many statistics/metrics for racing horses, and sport in general,
which helps one to choose his favorite.
He agreed.
Stock exchange, similarly...
He agreed.
Politicians, what we have about them, I asked.
Silence.
I showed
my rant then,
and after exchange of high fives we continued browsing youtube for some music.
Non-metric space == Paradise for a few and Hell for the rest.