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The paper looks more anecdotal than scientific to me. No tables, no graphs, where is the data coming from?
by somehnreader 12y ago
The paper looks more anecdotal than scientific to me. No tables, no graphs, where is the data coming from?
- pgeorgi 12y agoIt's not going to be popular in an environment that prefers the quantitative "big data" approach, but qualitative research is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research
- arethuza 12y agoQualitative reasoning was also a fairly active area in AI research for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_reasoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_reasoning
- norswap 12y agoData is hardly ever reliable/reproducible anyway I think it's more useful to look at this like a potential pattern that one could identify in practice (and act upon) rather than an objective truth or untruth.
- hderms 12y agoSoftware has a ton of examples of things we believe in without ever having conducted some rigorous scientific study. There are lots of opportunities for intelligent people to come up with ideas or methods strictly from analyzing anecdotal information they've accumulated. Science is probably the most effect method of understanding the natural world, but people are notoriously difficult to characterize in that type of manner.