Recovering_irrationalist comments on Rational vs. Scientific Ev-Psych - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Recovering_irrationalist 04 January 2008 03:37:57PM 1 point [-]

Even if, in the second case, I announce an experimental method and my intent to actually test it, I have not yet experimented and I have not yet received any observational evidence in favor of the hypothesis.

But at least you've thought it through from an experimental method point of view, and not noticed a serious defect in your theory in the process. As long as a false theory is less likely to survive that "test", it counts as some bayesian evidence in favor.