On 22 May 2014, at 18:54, meekerdb wrote:
On 5/22/2014 4:56 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
"Science: the method" is all about generating hypothesis and
testing them. Generating hypothesis is a creative process, and I
don't think that academia was ever a particularly good environment
for creativity. It's relationship to it is a bit bipolar: it
eventually glorifies the successful creative thinkers, but it
fights creativity every step of the way until then. Part of this
behaviour is for good reasons, but part is pathological, I would say.
Some people call it "fighting creativity every step of the way",
some people call it "testing the theory". The current thread about
Tronnies is a good example. Ross apparently doesn't have that
creative-stifiling academica training. But as a result he isn't
aware of all the tests that current theories have passed and why his
theory, creative though it may be, is going to generally be ignored
unless he shows it can pass all those tests too AND add something.
I concur.
It is also a nice definition of interesting theory: it retrodicts what
we already have measured, *and* add something new and testable.
Bruno
Brent
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