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>"this empirical research is wrong because my unsubstantiated theorizing is right." The empirical research isn't "wrong", that doesn't even make sense. Data i
by hodwik 11y ago
>"this empirical research is wrong because my unsubstantiated theorizing is right."
The empirical research isn't "wrong", that doesn't even make sense. Data is just data, it stands for nothing but itself, it must be interpreted for one to make a grander statement about reality.
I'm saying your and enraged_camel's interpretation of the data is wrong -- which is no less scientific a position, and no more unsubstantiated. We're both examining the data, which itself has no opinion, and making predictions about what that data represents given a number of imperfect heuristics.
That's how science works.
- stdbrouw 11y agoYou're creating a false equivalence. Yes, different interpretations of the same data are possible, but that doesn't make all interpretations equally valid. Occam's razor would prefer the simple explanation that a question asks what it purports to ask, rather than that the question must necessarily have been internally translated into another question by the participants to the study.