This article gives me a better perspective as to why scientific journals like to publish surprising results rather than unsurprising ones—they are more informative, for the very reason they are likelier to be wrong.
Yes… if a theory adds to the surprisal of an experimental result, then the experimental result adds precisely the same amount of the surprisal of the theory. That’s interesting.
This article gives me a better perspective as to why scientific journals like to publish surprising results rather than unsurprising ones—they are more informative, for the very reason they are likelier to be wrong.
Yes… if a theory adds to the surprisal of an experimental result, then the experimental result adds precisely the same amount of the surprisal of the theory. That’s interesting.