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Luke_A_Somers comments on This is why we can't have social science - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 15 July 2014 03:43:43PM 3 points [-]

If the first experiment was wrong, the second experiment will end up wrong too

This is not good, and I guess is not what he meant.

You design the second experiment so that it aims to find something assuming the first was right, but if the first was wrong, it can expose that too. Basically, it has to be a stronger experiment than the first one.

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 28 August 2014 06:48:38PM 0 points [-]

Agreed, that is a better way to say what I was trying to say.