Tom the Extermnator on the Middle East

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sun Apr 7 10:38:48 PDT 2002


On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Timothy Francis-Wright wrote:


> Experimentation is not always a good thing: perhaps the last
> political scientist to make a career out of large-scale
> experimentation was Henry Kissinger in his work on Southeast
> Asian political systems. We all know how that turned out.
>
> --Tim Francis-Wright

This isn't what scientists mean when they talk about doing an experiment. Formally, an experiment is an empirical study in which researchers systematically manipulate one variable to measure its effect on another variable. K's odious political mischief is not experimentation.

Miles



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