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- Credible alternativesList the serious rival explanations for what you're seeing, without inventing weak strawmen to knock down.Expand branch →
- Mechanism traceFor each rival explanation, spell out how it would leave a different fingerprint in the world.
- Divergent predictionsBefore looking at the result, lock in what each rival explanation predicts you will see.
- Falsifier and nondiagnostic resultState in advance what result would weaken your favorite theory and which results would tell you nothing.