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This might be somewhat off-topic but do we really always have to conduct a study first before we can acknowledge and solve a problem that is obvious if you have
by Kenji 10y ago
This might be somewhat off-topic but do we really always have to conduct a study first before we can acknowledge and solve a problem that is obvious if you have any common sense?
- cholantesh 10y agoSeemingly common sensical notions can be wrong. The hope is that empirical study is less so.
- Kenji 10y agoI agree with that notion completely, but I think one can overdo it and get lost in pedantry and bureaucracy. Imagine you would program your software and do a benchmark test on every single line. That is what it feels like.
- sanderjd 10y agoI've always liked the warning to not let perfect be the enemy of good. But I also think it's easy to rationalize too much guessing and too little evidence gathering. I find it a really hard balance to strike.
- rhizome 10y ago"Common sense is not so common." --Voltaire
- ramblenode 10y agoThe field of modern Psychology exists because introspection is unreliable.
- 12010981 10y agoSo introspection is replaced by studies that mostly focus on a single aspect of a complex system, analyzed by people who don't know MANOVA and just do p-value fishing in Excel. I'm with Feynman on Psychology.