[gnuastro-commits] master 0a26cc9: Minor correction in book's introduction

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

branch: master
commit 0a26cc9f819a96e443f4b942e78c17ac4539a04a
Author: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>
Commit: Mohammad Akhlaghi <address@hidden>

    Minor correction in book's introduction
    
    A minor correction was made in the "Science and its tools" section of the
    book to make it more clear. Also, Bob Proulx recently helped with an issue
    on the main Git repo, so his name is added to the lists to thank.
---
 THANKS                       |  1 +
 doc/announce-acknowledge.txt |  1 +
 doc/gnuastro.texi            | 28 ++++++++++++++--------------
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index fd75ff5..1162539 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ support in Gnuastro. The list is ordered alphabetically (by 
family name).
     Guillaume Mahler                     address@hidden
     Francesco Montanari                  address@hidden
     William Pence                        address@hidden
+    Bob Proulx                           address@hidden
     Yahya Sefidbakht                     address@hidden
     Alejandro Serrano Borlaff            address@hidden
     Lee Spitler                          address@hidden
diff --git a/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt b/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
index 64e7b42..3a61c26 100644
--- a/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
+++ b/doc/announce-acknowledge.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Raúl Infante Sainz
 Aurélien Jarno
 Floriane Leclercq
 Alan Lefor
+Bob Proulx
 Alejandro Serrano Borlaff
 Lee Spitler
 Ole Streicher
diff --git a/doc/gnuastro.texi b/doc/gnuastro.texi
index f77f851..b6751d2 100644
--- a/doc/gnuastro.texi
+++ b/doc/gnuastro.texi
@@ -827,10 +827,11 @@ matter, and generally calls for more than one pass 
through the
 computer''. Anscombe's quartet can be generalized to say that users of a
 software cannot claim to understand how it works only based on the
 experience they have gained by frequently using it. This kind of subjective
-experience is prone to very serious mis-understandings about what it really
-does behind the scenes and can be misleading. This attitude is further
-encouraged through non-free
address@hidden@url{https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html}}.  This
+experience is prone to very serious mis-understandings about the data, what
+the software/statistical-method really does (especially as it gets more
+complicated), and thus the scientific interpretation of the result. This
+attitude is further encouraged through non-free
address@hidden@url{https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html}}. This
 approach to scientific software only helps in producing dogmas and an
 ``obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill, and in his personal
 knowledge and authority''@footnote{Karl Popper. The logic of scientific
@@ -910,16 +911,15 @@ first edition, 2008.}. Science is not independent of its 
tools.
 @cindex Stroustrup, Bjarne
 Bjarne Stroustrup (creator of the C++ language) says: ``Without
 understanding software, you are reduced to believing in magic''.  Ken
-Thomson (the designer or the Unix operating system) says ``I abhor a
-system designed for the `user' if that word is a coded pejorative
-meaning `stupid and unsophisticated'.'' Certainly no scientist (user
-of a scientific software) would want to be considered a believer in
-magic, or `stupid and unsophisticated'. However, this can happen when
-scientists get too distant from the raw data and are mainly indulging
-themselves in their own high-level (abstract) models (creations). For
-example, roughly 5 years before special relativity and about two
-decades before quantum mechanics fundamentally changed Physics, Kelvin
-is quoted as saying:
+Thomson (the designer or the Unix operating system) says ``I abhor a system
+designed for the `user' if that word is a coded pejorative meaning `stupid
+and unsophisticated'.'' Certainly no scientist (user of a scientific
+software) would want to be considered a believer in magic, or `stupid and
+unsophisticated'. However, this can happen when scientists get too distant
+from the raw data and are mainly indulging themselves in their own
+high-level (abstract) models (creations). For example, roughly five years
+before special relativity and about two decades before quantum mechanics
+fundamentally changed Physics, Kelvin is quoted as saying:
 
 @quotation
 @cindex Lord Kelvin