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There is no “correct” statistical method. You have to *actually do science* if you want to figure stuff out. Science can't be reduced to any fixed method, nor evaluated by any fixed criterion. It *uses* methods and criteria; it is not defined or limited by them.

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What parts are left out then if you reduce science to the scientific method? The culture around it? Or is there no scientific method as such?

1:39 AM · Dec 18, 2017Twitter Web Client

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Right: there is no scientific method

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As in "there are many methods and there is no coherence to them", "no single method could hope to capture all empirically accessible knowledge", and/or in another way? (Is there a longform piece about it? Especially the latter version feels technical to show)

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