1 Experiment Design
1.0.1 Mechanistic Understanding
- Once data has been collected, it is important that one tries to get a
mechanistic understanding.
- This means more why this pattern is occurring. ### Data vs Theory
- Evidence is very different from theory.
- Evidence may describe a pattern, but as soon as any theory or
interpretation is applied it
- One of De's mentors called this religion vs evidence
- Example: He takes a survey that has us all saying that we feel
relatively safe, but we don't feel calm and we feel stressed out
- With this data you can draw two conclusions
- We are in a world where we are stressed
- We are a world where we aren't stressed
- There has to be one or the other
- The evidence supports the first one, but one cannot prove
anything
- The pattern is an extrapolation of the data