Goodhart's Corollary for Big Data: Data collected to answer a specific questionb becomes bad data. The only good data is data exhaust.
@psygnisfive Well, you can include "unexpected outcome" among serendipitous findings. Like M-M expt --> Relativity.
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@vgr einstein didnt know about M-M. the primary result of that experiment was a proliferation of fun aether theories -
@vgr Lakatos has a nice rundown of the eventual dominance of relativity in The Method of Scientific Research Programs - Show replies
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