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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2/2 Science is the craft of "knowing what you know". Like with any craft there are multiple tools, and practitioners of varying talent.
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It sometimes does (minority of cases, especially the automatable ones). That's why I said heuristic, not iron-clad rule.
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1/2 I respectfully disagree. Science sometimes does work that way. I have done it myself on multiple occasions.

