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Susan OBrien's avatar

A wise and compelling article, chock full of delicious hunks of graceful phrasing.

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Jim Sanders's avatar

Ok. You like longitudinal studies. In those studies the researcher often looks for patterns and correlations.

Three things:

1. Think of philosopher David Hume and the crack in inductive reasoning.

2. Add to that the issues with non-linearity that can produce Chaos if positive feedback loops exist .

3. Finally add Complexity Theory and the problems with multi-variables.

I know I said three. However, let me add Measurement Theory.

Just thinking a little.

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Georgia Patrick's avatar

Thank you, Jim. Your experience and wisdom shine in your comments.

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Jim Sanders's avatar

The only wisdom i have is one that i share with Socrates:

I KNOW nothing.

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