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- ditto, Josh -- as a cognitive scientist, I can't tell you how many times I have thought up some idea and gone out to do some reading or run a pilot experiment and realized that my idea had already been pursued or was absolutely ridiculous. The most important part of being a good scientist is being willing to be wrong and going out to test it. Because when you're wrong, oh well. You have learned something...and you revise your hypothesis or you move on. (e.g. so why didn't that boy know the game?) But when you're not wrong, that's when you have advanced science and pushed the boundaries of human knowledge. Radio Lab is out here showing us REAL science. They had this one datapoint - the Siberian six-year-old. They wanted to describe the data...one hypothesis is that Tic-Tac-Toe-dom doesn't cover all countries. So, "let's test it," they say. They do. They were wrong. That's science. Thank you, Radio Lab, for not shelving that piece because it didn't turn out to be as interesting as you thought it might have been when you started.
