(January 28, 2022 at 6:42 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(January 27, 2022 at 11:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Actually, wrongness - not certainty - is the essence of science. It is by winnowing out wrong explanations that we arrive at the correct ones.
‘What are you doing?’
‘Science. I had an idea that turned out to be wrong.’
‘That’s a lot of charts and graphs.’
‘That’s because I was very wrong.’
‘What’s this paper here?’
‘My thesis. It’s a monument to my wrongness.’
Boru
A lot of science works that way, but I am quite sure theses do not. In a thesis, you should only state what you think you have discovered, not what you were wrong (or are not sure) about.
Negative results are still results.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
