Note from North America: The Road Not Taken, the Data Not Recorded

Autor/in	Alper, Paul
Titel	Note from North America: The Road Not Taken, the Data Not Recorded
Quelle	In: Higher Education Review, 46 (2014) 2, S.86-94 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1609
Schlagwörter	Data Interpretation; Data Analysis; Error of Measurement; Theory Practice Relationship; Research Problems; Evaluation Methods; Evaluation Criteria; Evidence Based Practice; Foreign Countries; North America + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Data evaluation; Datenauswertung; Auswertung; Messfehler; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Forschungskritik; Ausland; Nordamerika
Abstract	In 1916 Robert Frost published his famous poem, "The Road Not Taken," in which he muses about what might have been had he chosen a different path, made a different choice. While counterfactual arguments in general can often lead to vacuous nowheres, frequently in statistics the data that are not presented actually exist, in a sense, explicitly or implicitly, out of sight. One has to be clever enough, however, to invoke the missing data. There has always been a tension between what theory predicts and what the experimental outcomes, i.e. the data, show. The English language, while good for poetry and diplomacy, is sloppy when it comes to science. The phrase "in theory…" usually implies that "…" is wrong. Americans are suspicious of theory and believe data verification is essential. After considering "theory" vs. experiment, this article discusses some examples of data not recorded. (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01