Heuristic: If you have data and look for questions, you'll generate insight. If you have questions and look for data, you'll generate noise
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Not quite right. Understand the sentiment, but the later sounds like the appropriate scientific testing of hypotheses.
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Science does not actually work that way (see Feyerabend, Against Method). Also...
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if you have questions and look for data, you'll find confirmation bias.
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better to have answers and look for data instead of questions
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Ironically, Daniel Kahneman describes working with Tversky to make "heuristic" a household term (T,F&S pp6-10) using the latter method.
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if you read books and look for questions, you'll generate insight. If you have questions and read books, you'll generate noise.
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does anybody ever have questions without having at least *some* data first?
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