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On 05/11/2011 02:57 PM, Dan Crowe wrote:
John Denker said, in part: "The real question IMHO is how well theInteresting point.
data fits the model."
Having been trained as an experimentalist, I prefer to phrase the
question in the opposite direction: "How well does the model fit the
data?"
It could go either way. For example, I consider myself a
card-carrying (and scar-carrying) experimentalist ... but if
a high-school kinematics experiment finds that F is not equal
to ma, I would bet that most of the discrepancy comes from
the data, not from the model.