“Science does not advance by guessing”

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2014-10-10

Summary:

I agree with Deborah Mayo who agrees with Carlo Rovelli that “Science does not advance by guessing. It advances by new data or by a deep investigation of the content and the apparent contradictions of previous empirically successful theories.” And, speaking as a statistician and statistical educator, I think there’s a big problem with the […]

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http://andrewgelman.com/2014/10/09/science-advance-guessing/

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Andrew

Date tagged:

10/10/2014, 07:01

Date published:

10/09/2014, 09:23