Glen E. P. Ropella wrote: > No. It's not stretching to say the three models are fundamentally > different. They _could_ be similar if one so chose. But, in GENERAL, > they will be fundamentally different if we don't put any constraints on > the source or construction of the models. Sure, if you manage to invent two entirely new ways of looking at a problem [the data collection plan/model and a design for a synthetic model]. Theoretical frameworks rarely come out of thin air -- new models come from extensions and tweaks to a reference model, and the finite gestalt of a scientific community. That's inevitable, I think, unless you happen to have a topic for study that has very rich set of data available (that wasn't collected motivated by some hypothesis).
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