--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > But that's exactly what this myth does: it provides > > > a basis for quantification. From it we can construct > > > testable hypotheses, e.g., people who live in homes > > > with south-facing entrances will die at younger ages > > > than those in homes with entrances facing in other > > > directions. > > > > Yes but... > > > > You can do research that shows a correlation between factors, and > even > > gives an indication of which factors may be causal. This is > important > > preliminary research. But, when faced with overwhelming opposition > to > > your ideas due to their not fitting with mainstream paradigms, you > > need to follow up this research with studies that demonstrate the > > actual causal mechanisms for the results being observed. > > I'm not sure you can actually *demonstrate* causal > mechanisms. Rather, you make causal *assumptions* > to a greater or lesser confidence level, no?
*** Yeh, sure. To be technically correct. But this doesn't change the nature of the research. One kind of research finds correlations, without looking at what may cause the correlations. Another kind of research focuses more directly on the processes involved. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
