Hi Kevin, this is great. Here's a link to a PDF of the article I wrote in
the British Ecological Society journal
http://post.queensu.ca/~groganp/Hypotheses%20in%20Ecology2foradobe.pdf.
Figure 1 in particular may help in making more clear what I mean by
iterative, and how one cycle feeds into
Honorable Ecolog Forum:
At the risk of repeating and repeating myself, I am once again going to cast
my good sense and caution to the winds and confess that I have operated most
of my life on the proposition that one (I) must go with the roughest guess
that gets the job done (is demonstrably
Hi,
I am fascinated by the varying use of hypotheses in ecology, and have been
following the recent emails with great interest. All scientific research
must presumably share a common goal to reach the highest attainable levels
of precision in explicitly articulating the research focus, and the
Paul Grogan has stated very elegantly the case for a well formulated
hypothesis, but I wish point out another aspect of the matter. People who
are prospecting for iron will pass right over gold without seeing it. This
is more than just a metaphor; it reflects how the human mind seems to work.
