Dr.PathRoch said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.
claudia_zurich said:Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
Dr.PathRoch said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Pushing back on Dr.PathRoch here. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
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