Omega
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As someone who does science for a living, I find the quality of discussion in this new sub-forum pretty awful. Science is not fancy equipment, big words, or fancy degrees.
Science is simple. Make a guess about some phenomenon. Do an experiment. Observe. Reject bad guesses. Iterate until it becomes very difficult to reject the guesses.
A child can do science, but many supposedly smart people often get it wrong. The goal is not to achieve sophisticated hypotheses, but to identify the simplest guiding principles that cannot be disproven. The devil is in the details. The best scientists aren't/weren't so unbelievably brilliant as to make conclusions that the rest of the world cannot (else, how could we understand those discoveries?) Rather the best scientists design clever experiments that clearly separate the principle being tested from all the millions of minutia that could confuse things.
As an example, take the cable debacle. This one really blows my mind. Does cable X sound better than cable Y? Maybe. Test it. Good luck nailing down all the variables that can change in the system.
Opinions in here aren't worth the time it takes to read them. Show some data. Have the guts to put your hypothesis out there, test it, and make observations. Share the results with everyone, converge on better ideas.
Just a suggestion.
Science is simple. Make a guess about some phenomenon. Do an experiment. Observe. Reject bad guesses. Iterate until it becomes very difficult to reject the guesses.
A child can do science, but many supposedly smart people often get it wrong. The goal is not to achieve sophisticated hypotheses, but to identify the simplest guiding principles that cannot be disproven. The devil is in the details. The best scientists aren't/weren't so unbelievably brilliant as to make conclusions that the rest of the world cannot (else, how could we understand those discoveries?) Rather the best scientists design clever experiments that clearly separate the principle being tested from all the millions of minutia that could confuse things.
As an example, take the cable debacle. This one really blows my mind. Does cable X sound better than cable Y? Maybe. Test it. Good luck nailing down all the variables that can change in the system.
Opinions in here aren't worth the time it takes to read them. Show some data. Have the guts to put your hypothesis out there, test it, and make observations. Share the results with everyone, converge on better ideas.
Just a suggestion.