Selective Amnesia

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?

Posted by Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan on May 17th, 2005 | Filed in General/Unclassified |

harini calamur Says:
May 17th, 2005 at 9:57 am
Hypothesis.
for without hypothesis evidences is just data!
Nilu Says:
May 17th, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Data and intuition combine to form Hypothesis and evidence.

One does not exist without the other.
Kingsley Says:
May 17th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
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.
Venky Krishnamoorthy Says:
May 18th, 2005 at 9:23 am
Chandu, Your rock!
harini calamur Says:
May 18th, 2005 at 10:49 am
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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Ravages Says:
May 18th, 2005 at 11:46 am
Venky:
Is that a hypothesis, or evidence?
I prefer it to be evidence.

Harini: Huh?
sat Says:
May 18th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
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.
Ravikiran Says:
May 19th, 2005 at 12:01 pm
Hypothesis