rachel_ABQ said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
No disagreement with rachel_ABQ. One condition attached. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
Dr.ObesityMed said:Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Taking it to my next appointment.
rachel_ABQ said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
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View ResultsOne concrete data point for the thread. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
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