Two important kinds of wrongness: -a claim escaping its low-rigor environment and being presented in a high-rigor environment (counseling talk —> science paper) -a claim escaping its high-rigor environment and being presented in a low-rigor environment (quantum woo)
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Replying to @literalbanana
Re: your first example: Isn’t qualitative observation one the first kinds of research needed to establish scientific principles?
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Replying to @DiamondGlyph
yeah in some sense the whole job of science is to try to aggregate claims (among other things) from various contexts and figure out how to strip the context off (skillfully or not)
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