Reward Approximation

hypothesis

anthropology

Human Subject Research

is a lullaby for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is a simple statement that everyone believes (innocent, unless found guilty).

is capable of being tested only by the comparison of prediction with experience.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Milton Friedman

 assimilates every thing to itself, growing the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment... and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand. Laurence Sterne

is often capable of being shaken simply by pushing it as far as it will go.

is a beautiful thing which science is always prepared to slay with an ugly fact.

is only the scaffolding which are erected in front of a building and removed when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removed when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

is not important for how it is picked. That is of no importance whatever, even if picked at random. A hypothesis is to be judged by its fruits.

How you picked your hypotheses (he argued) was of no importance whatever... even if picked at random. ...[A] hypothesis was to be judged by its fruits. ...Descartes' analogy between code-breaking and theory-making is excellent.

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