We may learn from their experience, but to be clear, this is not controlled experiment. Or an experiment. It was a single example of a chain of decisions in a very complicated environment based on a point of view. Even what data was recorded and how is likely problematic if we dig around as is necessary to understand better what happened. We need to be careful what we extract from that experience, but it is extremely valuable experience. Learning from natural experience is very hard, hence ideas surrounding experiments were invented. Doesn’t help the value of the experience to confuse it further by calling it an experiment. The public narrative about “science” and the doing of science and using scientific results is already a mess with practical and destructive implications to both science and society.
Really good!
We may learn from their experience, but to be clear, this is not controlled experiment. Or an experiment. It was a single example of a chain of decisions in a very complicated environment based on a point of view. Even what data was recorded and how is likely problematic if we dig around as is necessary to understand better what happened. We need to be careful what we extract from that experience, but it is extremely valuable experience. Learning from natural experience is very hard, hence ideas surrounding experiments were invented. Doesn’t help the value of the experience to confuse it further by calling it an experiment. The public narrative about “science” and the doing of science and using scientific results is already a mess with practical and destructive implications to both science and society.