On 12/7/2016 1:52 PM, Clark Goble wrote:
I do think there is a different type of bias and type of thinking for those doing more theoretical work.
No two people have identical interests, preferences, and ways of thinking. The word 'bias' has a negative connotation that is only appropriate when it "blocks the way of inquiry". Theoretical physicists are notorious for breaking experimental equipment when they walk into a laboratory. There's an anecdote about Niels Bohr, who was on a train from Denmark to Switzerland. At the moment when his train passed through Göttingen, an experiment at the University of Göttingen blew up. That was cited as proof of Bohr's greatness as a theoretical physicist. John
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