From the other side of the consultation, briefly. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
PedsEndoPhilly said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Mine went the same way, slower. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
PedsEndoPhilly said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Coming at PedsEndoPhilly’s question from a different direction. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
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Following on from PedsEndoPhilly — and this may be the naive question:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?