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Heh, I wonder if he would apply that to science as well?
by Andys 5y ago
Heh, I wonder if he would apply that to science as well?
- greiskul 5y agoScience advances in strange ways sometimes. Plate tectonics started basically with the anecdote of "south america really looks a lot like it fits into east Africa", but wasn't believed at first due to no hard data. Anedoctes are not data, but when you have some with no data, instead of ignoring it you should take it as a signal to go search if there is data to support it. Great scientists and mathematicians usually have good intuition of things to research, not because they have data, but their mental models of the subject tell them that there should be interesting data there.
- davidhowlett 5y agoI believe you mean West Africa.