BethLabQueen said:The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
BethLabQueen said:The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…
That reframing is the part I needed.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
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Shop Reference StandardsDeniseRN_TPA said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Same pattern here, and in the same order. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
DeniseRN_TPA said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Coming at DeniseRN_TPA’s question from a different direction. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.