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Chicken v Egg
A long discussion with the senior writer (Happy now Boss?) in my office, and still no conclusion to this argument.
Which comes first?
Hypothesis, or Evidence?
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May 17th, 2005 - 09:57
Hypothesis.
for without hypothesis evidences is just data!
May 17th, 2005 - 15:03
Data and intuition combine to form Hypothesis and evidence.
One does not exist without the other.
May 17th, 2005 - 22:59
Hypothesis dude. Gather data, then intuit a hypothesis, test hypothesis, rinse, repeat. Evidence is data that supports your hypothesis, and Harini is right, without a hypothesis there is no evidence, just data.
May 18th, 2005 - 09:23
Chandu, Your rock!
May 18th, 2005 - 10:49
Dear Chandru
found this quote by Douglas Adams (who else:) that would possibly resolve the issue on what came first:
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order,though.
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May 18th, 2005 - 11:46
Venky:
Is that a hypothesis, or evidence?
I prefer it to be evidence.
Harini: Huh?
May 18th, 2005 - 13:11
Map hypothesis to the egg, and the evidence to chicken.
Now it becomes the chicken or the egg problem. Since its an NP complete problem – which is unsolvable, you can rest be assured that you problem is also unsolvable.
May 19th, 2005 - 12:01
Hypothesis