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Correct. But the problem for these areas is that they cannot operationalise "works", because there's no causal theory. There's literally just "measure this, mea
by mjburgess 2y ago
Correct. But the problem for these areas is that they cannot operationalise "works", because there's no causal theory. There's literally just "measure this, measure that, assume some unknown mechainms with extremely strong properties that we have no evidence for ..."
So we're in a very very bad situation in these cases. It isnt that mere speculation is invovled as an input, its that mere speculation is the output.
- RandomLensman 2y agoNot really my experience when helping on, for example, gene array data analyses: there's often a lot of causal theory (or at least hardened hypotheses) developed going into the experiments. People don't just randomly measure things.
- mjburgess 2y agoThere's a wide range of activities called "genetics". I've said that many cases are science, and as you say, that would be one such case.