{"id":866,"date":"2008-10-03T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T08:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=866"},"modified":"2008-10-03T03:51:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T08:51:09","slug":"prediction-vs-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/866","title":{"rendered":"Prediction vs Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddfriedman.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/prediction-vs-explanation-puzzle.html\">Prediction vs Explanation: A Puzzle<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We do ten experiments. A scientist observes the results, constructs a theory consistent with them, and uses it to predict the results of the next ten. We do them and the results fit his predictions. A second scientist now constructs a theory consistent with the results of all twenty experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The two theories give different predictions for the next experiment. Which do we believe? Why?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/incoherently-scattered.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/prediction-vs-explanation.html\">incoherently scattered ponderings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prediction vs Explanation: A Puzzle We do ten experiments. A scientist observes the results, constructs a theory consistent with them, and uses it to predict the results of the next ten. We do them and the results fit his predictions. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/866\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}