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Lesson 6 of 11

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Two ideas about the tap still fit every record. How do you choose between them?

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The idea

A test tells two ideas apart only if they expect different things. Each idea says what a test will show. That is what it expects.

Two ideas still standing.
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  1. Two ideas still standing.
  2. A proposed morning: both expect the tap to run slowly. It cannot tell them apart.
  3. Another morning: one expects slow, the other expects normal.
  4. They expect different things. This one tells them apart.

Even a good test can raise new questions. Science continues.

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