Science only demands that you notice an anvil dropped on your head.
This isn’t fair—the Science ideal has higher and more difficult standards than this. Recall this aneqdote:
To keep himself honest, Riley would give a colleague the exact value of a key parameter, and himself use this value with noise added in. Only when he had done all he could to reduce errors would he ask for the exact value.
When a hundred mistakes can screw up your experiment, it is damn hard to try to fix them all without using them as excuses to get the result you “expect.”
Science only demands that you notice an anvil dropped on your head.
This isn’t fair—the Science ideal has higher and more difficult standards than this. Recall this aneqdote:
When a hundred mistakes can screw up your experiment, it is damn hard to try to fix them all without using them as excuses to get the result you “expect.”