Correspondence Corollary: An Experiment May Be Considered A Success If No More Than Half Your Data Must Be Discarded To Obtain Correspondence With Your Theory.

Correspondence Corollary: An Experiment May Be Considered A Success If No More Than Half Your Data Must Be Discarded To Obtain Correspondence With Your Theory.

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Correspondence Corollary:
An experiment may be considered a success if no more than half
your data must be discarded to obtain correspondence with your theory.

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If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
-- Maier's Law 1. The bigger the theory, the better....
Maier's Law: If the facts don't conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
Corollaries: (1) The bigger the theory, the better....
Maier's Law: If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
-- N.R. Maier, "American Psychologist", March 1960 Corollarie...
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