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Luke_A_Somers comments on How to provide a simple example to the requirement of falsifiability in the scientific method to a novice audience? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 12 April 2016 12:51:32PM 1 point [-]

Some other rules for the 2-4-6 game, so you can keep going if they get the first one:

  • The set has an even number in it

  • All three are 1-digit numbers

  • All three must be numbers

  • Whatever the numbers are, you alternate between replying 'yes' and 'no' (helps to be writing them down in this case)

Try to have more than one hypothesis under consideration at every time, and choose guesses which distinguish them.