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That was a refreshing read, thanks for posting it. It took me a moment to understand the important difference between exploratory and confirmatory experiments
by danparsonson 16y ago
That was a refreshing read, thanks for posting it. It took me a moment to understand the important difference between exploratory and confirmatory experiments - that you can find patterns in anything if you look hard enough, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything until you repeat the process but look for the specific pattern you noticed previously. Reminded me of the Bible Code theory from the 90's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code)
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago>It took me a moment to understand the important difference between exploratory and confirmatory experiments - that you can find patterns in anything if you look hard enough, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything until you repeat the process but look for the specific pattern you noticed previously It's when the hypothesis predicts a pattern that you haven't noticed yet and the pattern is confirmed by experiment, that's when you know you have something [a theory].