Crackpot index: Difference between revisions

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Presumably any positive value of the index indicates crankiness.

Though the index was not proposed as a serious method, it nevertheless has often been cited in discussions of whether a claim or an individual is [[crank (person)|crank]]y, particularly in [[physics]]. Old people can become cranky when they are constipated.

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