“This data looks like a gamma distribution, have you tried fitting it to that?” Why would this process result in a gamma distribution? “It just looks like a gamma to me. You would probably get a good fit if you tried!”
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If you want an image of the future, imagine an experimentalist saying this, about all their data, forever.
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Okay but can you *justify* using a double exponential? *thousand yard stare for ten seconds, then a reassuring smile* “Well obviously this process must be the result of a competition between *two* possible pathways. The rate constants correspond to the time scale for each path.”
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Too real
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I once had to explains to two fellows of the National Academy of Sciences why their argument for a double exponential was obviously totally bogus. They took it surprisingly well. I then introduced them to the joys of stretched exponentials...
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If in doubt, add more terms to your polynomial. Enough wiggles will fit anything! (almost..)
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