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It is not 'oversimplification', but pointing out the traps and pitfalls of empirical validation. If you gain new hypotheses in the process of validating and fa
by wsy 8y ago
It is not 'oversimplification', but pointing out the traps and pitfalls of empirical validation.
If you gain new hypotheses in the process of validating and falsifying your old ones, you need a second, independent study to validate the new ones. You anyway always run the danger that the result you found is a random artefact of your study participant group. If you validate the new insights with the same group, this risk becomes uncontrollable (e.g., confidence intervals become meaningless in such a setting).