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Why not? Can you explain?

• kingkilr 16y ago
  Because he's not suggesting an experiment. This method involves taking data already obtained and doing analyses on it, to look for something, it's really a different way to form a hypothesis. After he finds something this way it'll go "back" to the standard rigors of the scientific method.
  • loboman 16y ago
    "it's really a different way to form a hypothesis" Isn't that enough?
    • makmanalp 16y ago
      By different, he doesn't mean revolutionary.
• jessriedel 16y ago
  Because combing through large amounts of data in search of a hypothesis is as old as the hills. (In fact, the dangers of generating false hypotheses were already detailed on HackerNews a few days ago.) Brin isn't proposing some new way of doing science, he (I think) is just suggesting that the current mentality/funding-structure/whatever is not set up to support this type of analysis optimally.